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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escaped the South by moving to Los Angeles, never once loses her cultivated sense of social propriety--or her drawl. She may wear bohemian black, blaspheme her traditional upbringing and stay out all night drinking bourbon, but only because she thought she had to maintain her outer strength. Faiman's facade never cracked; her performance was seamless. She soliloquizes about smoking cigarettes--"like taking a drag off of death"--in the same breath that she makes banal and sarcastic remarks about the importance of one's liver. Faiman balances Meg's brilliantly contradictory nature, making her powerful and brash, loveable...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMES of the HEART | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...sprinkling of self-consciousness and heaps of bad taste (the bad taste in this movie easily surpasses that found in John Waters's recent, limp Pecker), director Yu has made a B-movie that can easily stand next to such giants as Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Troma classics like Surf Nazis Must Die and Class of Nuke'em High. The concept is not just perfectly ridiculous--that didn't save the dull, dull, dull Leprechaun 4: In Space-- but is also perfectly executed, with humor and style...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GET LUCKY: SEE `CHUCKY' | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Unlike an ordinary gas, the [outer atmosphere] of the sun that you see during a natural solar eclipse has a high degree of nonequilibrium," he said. "So every particle has its own temperature...

Author: By Eric M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Space Shuttle to Carry Lecturer's Experiments | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...organization called the X Prize Foundation and offered a $10 million award to the first designer to develop a ship able to take passengers into space. The trip the sponsors envision is not much--a suborbital lob shot that would barely nick the skin of space. But a little outer space is still outer space, and since the prize was announced, 15 groups have submitted blueprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations in Orbit | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

With the assistance of an 84-foot radiotelescope in Harvard, Mass., Horowitz and his assistants listen for frequencies near the neutral hydrogen line, which could indicate the existence of life in outer space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING FOR LIFE IN OUTER SPACE | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

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