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...LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM. Snaky vampires! Sexy virgins! Fluorescent caskets! Ken Russell's campfire tale may be more camp than fire, but it shows this unabashed mannerist going for baroque in fine form...
...Night Editors: Andrew J. Bates '90 Noam S. Cohen '89 Susan B. Glasser '90 John J. Murphy '89 John C. Yoo '89 Editorial Editor: John C. Yoo '89 Features Editor: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Photo Editor: Anh T. Nguyen-Huynh '90 Sports Editor: Michael J. Lartigue '89 Business Editor: Ken M. Richman '90 Copy Editor: Mark Wiedman...
Fortunately, Hiyakuta's ruthlessness is all in good fun. Last week in London he became the first Japanese to win the world's Monopoly championship, defeating 29 players from 28 countries. His final challenger: 13-year-old Ken Shabtay, an Israeli. Hiyakuta was breathless after collecting his last dollar in the 2 1/4-hour final. "Most pleased!" he declared. "I really wanted to win. I was determined." His title is no mean feat: the game has now been translated into 19 languages, and 100 million copies have been sold. Hiyakuta, a trading-company employee from Chiba City, took home a cash...
...Ken Russell is the movies' version of your dotty old aunt -- the one who lives in a house overstuffed with curios, who natters engagingly about arcane ( matters and who, when you ask for a snack, whips up a feast too big for one tummy or a hundred. Don't tell Russell that less is more; he'll say that too much is not nearly enough. His films (The Devils, Mahler, Altered States) are unguided tours of aesthetic excess. They turn classical composers into heavy- metal hellions, history into ranting nightmare, the Great Books into underground comics...
...street on our way to the next bar, we ran into Chris and Pablo hanging out around a parking meter. We stopped to chat, uncertain whether to take a place at the end of the long line outside the Boathouse (56 JFK St.). But, upon seeing our friend Ken already in line, we cut in midway. No one grumbled...