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...behold. The film bombed so ignominiously in its 1975 American premiere that the distributor, 20th Century-Fox, was ready to give it up for dead. Ten years after, this polysexual rock-'n'-roll travesty has earned over $60 million at midnight box offices. But R.H.P.S. is more than a sleeper hit for insomniacs. It is a cross-generational phenomenon, an evocation of '50s monster movies wrapped in the anything-goes spirit of the '60s that found a niche in the '70s and has blossomed in the '80s into a rite of passage for millions of American teenagers. As Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...what is the alternative to a movie kiss? In Sleeper, Woody Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Changing the Signals of Passion | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York." At the dawn of the Iraq war in 2003, Arizona National Guard troops were ordered to the nation's largest nuclear-reactor complex, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, after U.S. intelligence heard that sleeper cells of Iraqi terrorists might attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are These Towers Safe? | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...Officer dealt with a person found sleeping inside Massachusetts Hall. The sleeper was awoken, issued a no-trespass warning, and sent away...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Police Log | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...Officer dealt with a person found sleeping inside Massachusetts Hall. The sleeper was awoken, issued a no-trespass warning, and sent away...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Police Log | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

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