Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experimental new strategy to give the Harvard women's soccer team more offensive power didn't quite do the right stuff Saturday in Providence. The yield: a 2-1 overtime loss to a tenacious Providence Friars squad...
Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That alone should guarantee boffo sales for Barfo...
Henry Miller, an expatriate Brooklynite in '30s Paris, wrote rambunctious novels about sex and saw Tropic of Cancer banned in his homeland for 30 years. Anais Nin, a Frenchwoman who befriended Miller, wrote intimate journals that remained expurgated long after their publication. Now American director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) has made a biography of the two writers and Miller's wife June. Surprise! Henry & June has been rated X by the industry's classification board...
...dismayingly old hat. It's not just the proliferation of overworked characters and formulas: idealistic lawyers, precocious five-year-olds and family shows with interchangeably generic titles (The Family Man, Married People and Sons and Daughters -- try telling them apart). It is also the hollowness of the supposedly innovative stuff. The game this season is to grab the audience's attention, to make shows stand out from the crowd in some way. But the swatches of fuchsia and bright orange can't disguise the dingy old furniture underneath...
...museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers from under his domed brow, and through a veil of smoke rising...