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Entertainment News from January 1998

1The figures are in, and U.S. moviegoers dished out more than $6.2 billion dollars at the box office in 1997, a 7 percent increase over 1996's $5.76 billion take. Men in Black fared best in…

Lawrence, D. H.

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885–1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction. Lawrence believed that industrialized Western culture was…

Timur

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Empire of Timur (1405) TimurTimurtĭm&oobreve;rˈ [key] or TamerlaneTimurtămˈərlān [key], c.1336–1405, Mongol conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng…

Space Love

Shandling's "What Planet Are You From?" navigates human relationships by Alicia Potter Shandling plays an alien from an all-male planet.In "What Planet Are You From?", which opens next Friday,…

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Case SummaryIn the State legislature of Tennessee, representation was determined by a 1901 law setting the number of legislators for each county. Urban areas, which had grown greatly in…

Detroit Lions 1997 Roster By Statistics

Passing (5 Att)AttCmpPctYdsTDRateScott Mitchell50929357.634841979.6Frank Reich 301136.7121021.7Interceptions: Mitchell 14, Reich 2.Top ReceiversNoYdsAvgLongTDHerman Moore104129312.4798Johnnie…

Timeline: Video Games, Part I

Part I: Early Years by Amanda Kudler 1958 1961 1965 1970 1972 Next: 1975-1984 1958 Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the…

San Diego, Calif.

Mayor: Kevin Faulconer (to Jan. 2017)2010 census population (rank): 1,307,402 (8); Male: 660,626 (50.5%); Female: 646,776 (49.5%); White: 769,971 (58.9%); Black: 87,949 (6.7%); American…

Turkey and Pigskin

A guide to Thanksgiving football by Mike Morrison This article was posted in November 2000. Lions opponents no longer have Barry Sanders to worry about on Thanksgiving as the future Hall of…