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...only distinction between two completely different characters.) Lingering meathooks from the set of the Hasty Pudding Theater's other ongoing production, "Slaughter City," glower alarmingly over the stage, while "California Seagull's" only set consists of a low wooden platform which serves alternately as a stage, a dock, a bed and a desk. All this minimalism suggests an appeal to raw drama, a going back to basics--even a reinvention of drama a la Konstantin...
...Galena, Illinois, the quaint Mississippi River town where he lived quietly with his wife and served as the local Methodist pastor. In 1991, 81% of the townspeople voted against playing host to the boat, but the referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey's message: Despite the $1.4 billion in annual tax revenues it pays states...
...average day, at least 4,000 Mexican trucks cross the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in downtown Laredo, where only 20 customs agents are available to work the import dock. Those agents have to inspect insurance, driver's licenses and immigration papers and look for narcotics and violations of trade-compliance laws. Checking a vehicle for faulty brakes or bald tires is way down the list and not necessarily a customs agent's responsibility, according to chief inspector David Higgerson, the cargo director for U.S. Customs in southern Texas...
...from the defense plea for racial reparations to breathless news bulletins on Marcia Clark's hairdo. Yet even within the strict letter of the law, the case unfolded with such grotesque distortions of what most Americans think of as normal justice that the system itself ended up in the dock. Verdicts are now coming down, and they are not pretty. From police irregularities to the issue of trial by jury itself, what the British writer G.K. Chesterton called "the awful court of judgment" has acquired a modern spin on the adjective...
...Cape Canaveral last week in America's 100th manned launch, the two men, Robert ("Hoot") Gibson and Anatoli Solovyev, along with four other U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, were both on board. Their mission was a more ambitious reprise of the earlier Apollo-Soyuz flight: rendezvous and dock with the Russian space station Mir, orbiting 245 miles above the earth...