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...strength of the film is clearly not in the characters themselves, but in the plot twists that manipulate them. It creates unbelievable premises one after another. This is best appreciated when the McCoys hide out in a dumpster, only to get compacted in the truck and then dumped in a land fill with the rest of the garbage. It makes the garbage scene in "Star "Wars" look like a bath at the Ritz Carlton...

Author: By Deborah E . kopald, | Title: High Camp | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Last week FBI agents received more potentially damaging evidence, retrieved by Kathy Peterson on Jan. 30 from a Dumpster outside her Portland restaurant. Peterson says the items she turned over included one handwritten note with the phone number and address of the Tony Kent Arena and the numbers "12-4," which mirror Kerrigan's practice hours; another note bearing the notations "tunee can arena" and "tony kent arena"; and an envelope addressed to Gillooly. The FBI reportedly began tests to determine if the scratchings matched Harding's handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slippery Saga of Tonya Harding | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...Delaware, changed the suit's focus to racketeering under the direction of Fay Clayton, a Chicago lawyer with RICO experience. The defendant list was amended to include Terry as well as Scheidler, and the alleged rackets grew to include forcible "invasion" of clinics, burglary (a theft from a dumpster of fetal material) and arson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Activist, My Mobster | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...Clackamas County D.A., who steered Saunders to the FBI. All of this left the FBI scrambling to follow up Saunders' leads even as the story was leaking to the press. No one has come up with the tape, though police last week did recover the assault weapon from a dumpster near the attack site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...corner store with some candy. Claude Davis, a roadworker living across the street from the Parsons home, claimed that he saw her being forced into a car by four Hispanic men. Then last month he changed his story: Andrea had been helping him look for aluminum cans in a Dumpster. She fell, hit her head and died, he said. Yet no body has turned up, and Andrea's mother Linda doesn't believe Davis: "Andrea would rather be grounded than take out the trash." Linda and the local authorities think somebody made away with her daughter -- and with her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robbing the Innocents | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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