Word: crashing
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...reach one--Crowley dressed his production crew in alien costumes and set about annoying everyone in town. The aliens accosted pedestrians; the aliens faked public brawls; the aliens disturbed screenings with staged abductions; they shoved flyers for their movie in strangers' pockets. By midweek Crowley's aliens decided to crash a party for the Independent Film Channel, smuggling in a monitor and two subfunctional speakers under a trench coat...
...opponent or a proposal. "He has a penchant for issues that are complex and intellectual, as opposed to emotional and ideological," explains a former aide. "With Gore, the question isn't, What do I believe? It's, What do I know?" Although much has been made of Bush's crash course in policy early last year, when the best minds in the party came down to Austin, Texas, to help school him on everything from China policy to the complexities of the earned-income tax credit, Gore too has a history of arranging tutorials to help him hone his views...
...Nintendo, and Nintendo blown away by a company that had never before produced a games box: Sony. Indeed, Microsoft execs love to talk about how the PlayStation was seen as a no-hoper--until it caught the imagination of games developers and took off like a particularly speedy Crash Bandicoot. It's no accident that Microsoft is trying to woo developers with Sony's sales pitch: We're an easier platform to write for. Gates has already won over such top games companies as Electronic Arts, Konami and Eidos, makers of Tomb Raider...
...twice-divorced mother of three, she lacks money for her kids' day care and her own meal at a diner. Yet Erin (Julia Roberts) has the stash for an endless supply of trashy frocks, which she wears to job interviews, even to court as the plaintiff in a car-crash suit. They're the sort of clothes that Roberts' hooker in Pretty Woman would have rejected as way too gaudy...
DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled...