Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whimper. In the final scene, the seven crew members who had meant most to the show--Jean Luc, Deanna Troi, Whorf, Data, Geordi, Commander Riker, and Dr. Crusher--sat around a table after escaping their hairiest adventure ever, playing cards and talking over life. It was an elegant exit and the essence of good art, leaving me, and I'm sure all watching, wanting more...
Oswald is made a dizzying blend of soldierly submission and insolent sneer, animal cunning and dimwit suckerdom by Alexis Arquette, a film actor (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Threesome) and sometime drag performer under the sobriquet Eva Destruction. In the most jarring scene, he is half-seduced, half-raped by David Ferrie, a fey father figure and apparent conspirator. Ferrie, whom Malkovich has said he would have liked to play if he were not directing, is a tour de force for Laurie Metcalf in a far cry from her Emmy-winning role as the title character's sister...
...unusually stubborn men from Texas -- one rich, the other never quite sure of having gas money or whether his truck's head gasket will last till the next interstate exit -- are locked in a battle over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber...
...says a former U.N. peacekeeping official. "The members have got to get together and figure out what might work." Since the U.N. force was authorized, arguments have continued about what it should do, where the troops should be stationed, what their exact mission would be and how they would exit. U.S. officials question what any peacekeeping force can do unless both of the warring sides in Rwanda agree to a cease-fire...
Kilson said the dispute was only resolved when Rita M. Breen, executive officer for the committee on African Studies, stepped between the two, allowing Kilson to exit the room...