Word: gins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abortion and affirmative action. So is he waiting for 2000, or heading off into the sunset once and for all? "I haven't passed over yet," Powell offered, sphinx-like. "I'm not ready to go down to Hilton Head and sit in a rocking chair and drink gin fizzes." Anita Hamilton
Grisham had a personal reason for concocting this novel legal theory. In March 1995, William Savage, an acquaintance of Grisham's, was gunned down at the cotton gin where he worked, out-side Hernando, Mississippi; the next day, convenience-store clerk Patsy Byers was shot and paralyzed in nearby Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Benjamin Darras, 18, and Sarah Edmondson, 19, have been accused of both crimes. Edmondson told authorities that before the shootings, she and Darras took LSD and watched Natural Born Killers, which they had seen countless times...
...impacted resentments on the part of the miners and supercilious contempt on the part of the clan that owns the mine workings, ruled by a righteous and merciless cleric, Bishop Hannay. Into this nexus of bitterness and coal dust comes Jonathan Blair, a penniless, malarial and more than slightly gin-sodden African explorer. Blair, who was born in Wigan, would rather be anywhere else, but the wealthy bishop, whose hobby is African exploration--this is the era of Burton, Speke and the Mountains of the Moon--has promised Blair a place on his next expedition if he finds the missing...
...went off the cliff and pinwheeled onto the rocks below, a world economic crash that seemed a retribution for too much heedlessness and gin. By the time the '30s, W.H. Auden's "low, dishonest decade," gave out, the Nazis were spreading out all over Western civilization. And so on. The '40s--the first half of them given over to world war, the second half hardening into cold war and nuclear anxiety--did not make anyone want to linger...
...health-care company) is not exactly a secret. "What we've tried to be," says Jon Jory, the ATL's guiding light for 27 years, "is a freshet for the American repertoire." Among the 224 new plays in the fest's 20 years are two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, as well as Agnes of God, Extremities and off-Broadway's current Below the Belt. And however perilous the playwright's lot, plenty of folks want to join the wake. Each year, Jory and his staff read an astonishing 3,000 scripts...