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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underlying theme is how much easier these urban young find it to couple in the dark than to commit their hearts or even voice their feelings. A woman bluntly tells a man trying to seduce her that the romantic method won't work. The central male, informed that someone loves him, replies that no such thing exists. His best friend's mantra: "Everybody lies." To underscore the nihilism, playwright Brad Fraser, 32, interweaves teen folklore of erotic mayhem, references to AIDS and a gradual unveiling of a serial killer -- all with mordant humor (a man going to a pickup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MTV Drama | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

Also in marked contrast to last year, Harvard did not commit one turnover. In 1990, the Crimson averaged more than three giveaways a game...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Bright Future for QB Giardi | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...this the top price for murder these days? I suppose if a person is willing to commit a heinous crime for money, it's not that hard to believe that he or she would do it for a ridiculously small...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...fits your description of a middle-aged Caucasian with above-average intelligence." A 1987 psychiatric evaluation quoted in the Washington Post found Evans to be suffering from a "lifelong history of behavioral difficulties and frank mental illness." Evans, who has been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and once attempted to commit suicide, has a lengthy arrest record. Sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault in 1986, he was released on parole last April. His main wish now, said his attorney, is to receive the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serial Killers: Going for The Record | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

That is precisely what the defense team, headed by Noriega's flamboyant lead counsel, Frank Rubino, has been saying all along. Rubino, one of Miami's savviest drug-case lawyers, claims the charges were manufactured because of Noriega's refusal to commit Panamanian soldiers to an invasion of Nicaragua at the request of the U.S. "Just a drug case, huh? Do you believe in the tooth fairy too?" says Rubino. "Like it or not, General Noriega has been an asset of the CIA, the National Security Agency and other government agencies for 20 some years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War on Drugs: Day of Reckoning | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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