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...lyrics. The best lyrics of any song in the nineties. Simple, yet far-out. Built around a theme common to many Americans. Too much darn sexuality. Indeed, few among us have not thought that they were "Too sexy for their...
...Darren Star surprised his large, tight-knit family in suburban Potomac, Md., by moving to far-out Los Angeles. Within a few years, he wrote and sold the script for Doin' Time on Planet Earth, a film about a teenager who thinks he's from outer space. After that, Star never looked back. Today, at 30, he draws a six-figure income as the creator of Beverly Hills, 90210, the Thursday-night melodrama that has captured the teen audience by portraying youthful angst and L.A. glitz. Star owns a house in the Hollywood Hills, drives a Porsche convertible, lifts weights...
...businessman Clay Shaw on trial for complicity in Kennedy's murder. (The case ended in a quick acquittal.) Stone's script, a version of which was obtained by TIME, is based largely on Garrison's 1988 book, On the Trail of the Assassins. Garrison is considered somewhere near the far-out fringe of conspiracy theorists, but Stone appears to have bought his version virtually wholesale. One need look no further than the actor who will play Garrison: Hollywood's reigning all-American hero Kevin Costner...
Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
Since well before Albert Einstein, physicists have been conjuring up concepts that defy common sense. Consider just a few of the far-out notions now accepted by the scientific community: clocks that tick slower when they ride on rockets, black holes with the mass of a million stars compressed into a volume smaller than that of an atom, and subatomic particles whose behavior depends on whether they are being watched...