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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Motel Blues is a series of episodes in the lives of photographer Jarred (Jay Heath) and his vapid girlfriend Flee (Angelina Zappia), who have travelled to a remote rat-trap hotel in the desert so that Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Risky `Motel Blues' Speaks (Often Silently) of Ire | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Of Fish and Politics | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...country road in the Mount Fuji foothills toward what looked to be a factory compound. It was 7 a.m. There were more than a thousand police; those who didn't wear protective suits watched the canaries closely. If the compound doors opened and the birds died, they would flee for their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...nerve gas. The cult is the chief suspect in last week's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 and injured thousands, with hundreds still hospitalized. In another cult building, police found underground rooms that they believed were used to imprison people who tried to flee the sect. Police found millions of dollars worth of yen, piles of gold bars and tons of chemicals in cult buildings, including theingredients of sarin-- the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack -- as well as glycerin compounds that could be used to make explosives. The leader of the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPS FIND CULT CHEM LAB | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Leahy and Smith threatened the life of an armored-car guard as he made a cash delivery to the Bank of Boston branch on Mass. Ave. and attempted to flee with one of 10 sacks of cash the guard had wheeled into the bank's foyer, police...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Leahy Charged With Six Counts For Bank Heist | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

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