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...unclear, the show has a screaming neon set and vivid, creative lighting. The cast's energy nearly makes up for the inevitability of them looking at least ten years too old to be in high school. Headlined by Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo, the cast ably fills the cardboard stereotypes: Michelle Blakely as prissy Patty Simcox, Jessica Stone as aimless Frenchy, and Ricky Paull Goldin as tough-guy Danny Zuko...

Author: By Rachel B. Tiven, | Title: Grease: You've Seen This One Before | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...been in a position of power for 14 years," he observes, "says no far more often than he gets to say yes. And people remember those nos. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be glad to see me under an overpass with a cardboard sign that says, WILL CREATE SHOWS FOR FOOD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Slugger | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...worry about than Kremlin intrigues and superpower summitry. Injuries from slips, falls and other pedestrian mishaps were reported to be running as high as 1,200 a day because the city can no longer afford enough tools and workers to clear the filthy, slush-filled streets. Mountains of sodden cardboard boxes are piling up behind new sheet-metal stands, where vendors sell cigarettes, candy and drinks at train and metro stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Visits, But Moscow Does Not Believe in Cheers | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...Christmas morning a nearly frozen John Steward crawled out from the cardboard box across the street from Columbia University. He has lived there for two years, but because it's not a valid address, he can't collect welfare. The lone nickel inside his coat pocket would hardly get him breakfast. But Steward wasn't worried. While he was panhandling for spare change the day before on upper Broadway in Manhattan, someone handed him a booklet of vouchers good for a dollar's worth of food at any of seven local stores. Trading them in for a bagel and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Voucher? | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death on Delivery | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

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