Word: anews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHOW BUSINESS Cirque du Soleil's blowout astonishes anew...
...Daddy, a dog named Miles, her yellow bedroom and just about everything she has ever known, except perhaps a few favorite stuffed animals. Under court order, the dark-eyed, inquisitive girl will be transported 400 miles west to the small farming community of Blairstown, Iowa, to begin life anew as Anna Lee Schmidt...
...vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain as an arm in a sling gets wrenched anew) and Jack Wallace as a veteran cop full of salty scorn for anything he cannot understand. The opening act is a fast 90 minutes of wit and surprise; the shorter second act eventually winds down into wearying explication and mawkish reconciliation, yet a saving vitality lingers...
...instance, might follow its example and implement a carbon tax, which encourages efficiency and the use of cleaner fuels. But the whaling issue has real significance. By undermining the International Whaling Commission, Norway's unilateral action will open the door to cheating by other nations, imperiling anew some whale species. Many Norwegians recognize this, but it is the politically potent fishermen who are driving policy...
...MOST LIVID SCAR FROM LAST SPRING'S RIOTS IN South Central Los Angeles, the intersection of Florence and Normandie where the videotaped beating of truck driver Reginald Denny took place, was lacerated anew last Monday. What started as a peaceful demonstration for the "L.A. 4," still awaiting trial for the Denny beating, degenerated into a melee of brick and bottle throwing that injured 12. This time, however, the L.A.P.D. piled in immediately. Three hundred officers in riot gear made 55 swift arrests, overwhelming the disorder. With both the Denny case and the Rodney King case coming up in February...