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Boat design has been critical in Fremantle. Murray and his co-designer, John Swarbrick, relied on hours of tank-testing models with Dutch Wizard Peter van Oossanen, who helped develop Australia II. As for Conner, he and his syndicate president, San Diego Businessman Malin Burnham, put together what Burnham calls a "mini-NASA" of more than 20, including aerospace scientists and hydrodynamics researchers. "Having the wrong fit between boat and local weather would have been fatal," explains Design Manager John Marshall. In search of the ideal hull, the team used a computer analysis of wind and wave conditions...
...nine-level parking complex at the Century City North office tower have a new memory device to steer them to their cars: show tunes from famous motion pictures. Different parking levels have their own movie posters and such piped-in music as We're Off to See the Wizard and the theme from Star Wars...
PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED Or: Back to the Future meets The Wizard of Oz. Kathleen Turner is an older Dorothy who is transported to the Emerald City of youth, then ruefully returns to the Kansas of middle age. Francis Coppola plays Frank Capra, and wins...
...SACRIFICE Andrei Tarkovsky, the Soviet emigre film wizard, poaches on Ingmar Bergman territory -- the metaphysical longing, the sexual heat, the end of the world -- and fashions his testament. A triumph of imagery and ambition...
...group of Fundamentalist Christian parents, led by Vicki Frost, a mother of four, attacked the school district's choice of such books as The Diary of Anne Frank and The Wizard of Oz on the ground that the works contained references that were contrary to what the parents regarded as God's teaching. The state of Tennessee argued that parents could not pick and choose from the curriculum; if they did, their children could not remain in school. Hull disagreed, ruling that parents could withdraw their children from the reading program but allow them to receive the rest...