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...least of your worries if you get Christine on your bad side. John Carpenter's supremely goofy adaptation of the merely goofy Stephen King book (The killer car is a 1957 Plymouth Fury -- get it?) is saved only by the fact that it's not the worst King auto-da-farce -- that would be the 1986 stinker Maximum Overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roadhouse Potatoes | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...other Harvard-based teams included graduate student Jason M. Rihel, Lu Yin '02, Raphael R. Maiopolous '99 and Kelvin S. Liao '01on the second team and Bruk Endale '01, Zong Da Chen '01, Paul L. Greer '01, and David G. Purdy '99 on the third team. Daniel A. Jepson '02 and Chris J. Miller '01 were floaters in the tournament, competing with players from other schools...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Places Second | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...went. Nuccio's performance as Voltaire himself, Dr. Pangloss, Cacambo and Martin wowed the audience. One of Nuccio's most memorable numbers is in the angrily energetic "Auto Da Fe" (riot), when he, playing Dr. Pangloss, sings about how he contracted a virus most resembling syphilis in an attempt to save himself from execution for heresy. At several points he breaks into a curious Russian dance, the ensemble matching his energy and spirit as they kick and push him towards one of the black poles, set up as a gallows. Not only is the song about his contraction...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Shaky Foundations at the Dunster House Opera | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...necessarily have to take the defensive in this situation. Back up off 'da ropes and assert yourself as a confident woman of the 90s by trying these other approaches. Use the classics, "Did someone step on a duck?," or "What the hell was that?," or even preface your burst of flatulence with, "Would you like to know how I would end war and world hunger...

Author: By Dan L. Gruenberg, | Title: under pressure | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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