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White separatist Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, a family friend, were acquitted in the 1992 slaying of a U.S. marshal. The marshal was killed in a gunfight after federal agents converged on Weaver's remote cabin to arrest him for failing to appear in court on a weapons charge. Weaver's 14-year-old-son also died in the shoot-out. The shoot-out was followed by an 11-day siege in which Weaver's wife was killed by a federal sniper...
Carby, addressing more than 70 gathered at Emerson Hall in the last of the three W.E.B. Dullois Lectures, drew on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the recent Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" as examples of works by whites intended to preserve their social position, not to promote true racial equality...
...weather had conspired against the Harvard men's lacrosse team, keeping them stuffed up in the confines of the indoor practice facilities. Cabin fever was setting in among the Harvard players while our nation's armed forces, ranked thirteenth in the country and fresh off a 18-5 drumming of Cornell, was in town...
ASPEN'S TWIN PEAKS (ABC): Limited-run series. In the two-hour premiere, a lost skier, played by Kyle MacLachlan, goes for help, leaving his companion (Lara Flynn Boyle) in a cabin with only doughnuts to eat. She spends the next seven episodes hallucinating about a dancing dwarf (Jason Alexander). Directed by Jennifer Lynch...
...horse images were embedded in a lush, forceful and nuanced paint surface that -- as in Cabin Fever, 1976 -- could be very handsome indeed. They included Minimalist signs, X's and quarterings, which made them seem more heraldic than natural. (Though the vertical split line that bisects Cabin Fever might be read as the finish post at the end of a horse race, it's probably just a relic of Minimalist style.) The opposites didn't amalgamate well. As Rothenberg herself put it, "My formalist side was denying my content side." And so "I began tearing it ((the horse)) apart...