Word: aquila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drugs are one of the main sources of conflict in Columbia, said David Aquila Lawrence, a free-lance journalist for National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC and CNN for the past three years...
...grain" to the universe. The radio signals emanating from Sextans seemed to have a higher magnitude of polarization than constellations at 90 degree angles. This led the team to conclude that Sextans lies along a universal axis which runs north to south through the earth and towards the constellation Aquila, although their data did not permit them to say which constellation is in the north and which is in the south. The finding may also provide a challenge to the "Big Bang" theory that says that the universe was born and expanded in a completely symmetrical fashion...
...play titled Hot 'n' Throbbing, or at least one hopes for it. Hopes increase when the play opens showing a woman in a strip booth at one side of the stage and her announcer in a booth opposite. These lewd stakes are raised still higher with Diane D'Aquila's opening monologue at her computer as she writes pornography to support her two children. The play begins, at such a pitch that one wonders how playwright Paula Vogel will pull...
...meet the kids, we are given a standard glimpse at the dysfunctional family. D'Aquila plays the mother of the sexually blossoming Leslie Ann (Amy Louise Lammert) and the nerdy, pre-pubescent, Calvin (Randall Jaynes). Leslie Anne insists on being called Leila and wearing tight, tight jeans in which Calvin tauntingly claims he can see her panty lines. Poor Calvin doesn't have a life-it's a Friday night and he would rather stay home with Mom writing porn. While the situation would make a good Oprah topic, D'Aquila's human portrayal along with the well-paced flashes...
...also aren't convinced that D'Aquila, who has gone to the trouble of getting a court order and a gun to protect herself, would really offer her alcoholic husband a drink while protesting that she doesn't want to engage in "ennabling behavior." Every actor must ask themselves why they are in a room, but neither Willis or D'Aquila account for the fact that she's armed and he's bleeding and they aren't' on their way to the hospital. The formula dictates that these relationships create hard-to-break patterns...