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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tanya Krohn's Lidia/Harriet/Arabella is clearly the most difficult role of the cast, and though Krohn charges with good cheer throughout the majority of Lidia's obscene antics, her occasionally rushed delivery signals a slight faltering in her resolve. The poignancy of Lidia's wish that the whole damn family would go down with the ship is proof that Krohn has brought a humanity to the burlesque figure of Lidia. In the end, her efforts bring a consistency to the fragmented role...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: 'Titanic' Tosses Restraint Overboard | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...states, are voicing frustration with the rush on environmental regulations. "I think it's going to be a huge issue against some Republicans in '96,'' says Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York, who five years ago helped amend the Clean Air Act to discourage acid rain. "[Voters in '94] damn sure didn't vote to dismantle the agencies that protect our water, our air, our land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND? | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...hands and knees. But Carver kept coming. He pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he keeps with him always, and waved it defiantly at the agent as a crowd of about 200 people, a quarter of them armed, cheered him forward. "I was damn scared," says Carver. He was afraid someone--maybe the agent, maybe an overzealous spectator--would draw a gun and trigger a cascade of violence. "I told myself, 'Dick, you've got to keep going. Because if you stop, the people are going to do something, and someone's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNREST IN THE WEST: NEVADA'S NYE COUNTY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...challenge was to take a 70-page script and make it 99.5 percent funny, with virtually no filler material," said Eilenberg. "I think we came pretty damn close...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: Pudding Chooses Script | 10/4/1995 | See Source »

...young swaggerer, a gifted thug with the flash and cold nerve to force a terrified man of the opposing tribe to his knees, then cut his throat with a filleting knife. Kelly's bunch are Protestants, and the enemy tribe Catholics, though it matters not a Mass or a damn because pure enmity on both sides, cherished and nurtured from childhood, now and forevermore, is the city's religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TRIBAL KILLER | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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