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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What You Didn't Know: This House was designed to be riot-proof; count how many shots the police have at you as you wind your way up the reinforced concrete steps to the dining hall...
...secret compartments accessible only to technical staff. To compound its p.r. problems, American is the target of a government antitrust suit that started last May, and one of its planes crashed in June while landing during a storm in Little Rock, Ark., killing nine people. But the airline can count itself as but one of many unwitting mules ? after all, according to the Washington Post, Colombian drug exports to the U.S. currently run at an estimated 165 tons of cocaine and 6 tons of heroin each year. That ought to make all airlines take a hard look under the seats...
Blair Witch, like any movie, has many antecedents. It is, by our casual count, the 873rd horror movie about youths who go into the woods on a lark and come out on a slab; the 4,982nd in which people disappear in reverse order of star quality; and the zillionth in which kids are frightened into a state of suicidal stupidity. Horror's evil creatures don't have to be very cunning when the heroes keep wandering in circles or deeper into the old dark house...
...Every face I come across is a new possibility, and a sealed certainty. Could we become friends? Perhaps. And if this person should leave my immediate circumstances, could he exit my memory, and I carry on to encounter new possibilities without loss? Definitely. Could I make his remembrance not count? Easily...
...overweight old people. The body can't take it. My husband had a cholesterol count of 265. So he gave up meat for three months. His hair and skin started to look terrible...