Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
...addition to the buildings, the three-quarter-mile long wrought iron and masonry fence encircling the Yard was restored. But Harvard's restoration project will continue into the next century. Over the next several years, 250 trees will be replanted...
...approached, crowds eager to catch a glimpse of their returning savior flocked to the National Palace, packing the streets so tightly that the faces of those standing next to the fence were squeezed like lemons between the iron bars. "For three years we have suffered," said Michel Jasmine, a member of the crowd. "But God has been good to us; he has given us back Aristide. Now we face a new life." When the President finally appeared, he was dwarfed by the bulletproof shield that surrounded the podium, another sign of how fragile his safety is in this divided society...
...larger sell-out of college athletics. For stuffy academics, it means the elevation of a recreational position--football coach--to the status of a tenured professorship. And for Marxist intellectuals, it means a snaky move by prissy, bourgeois capitalist universities to dominate their proletarian counterparts on the grid-iron...
Jordan and Israel finished a draft peace treaty after an all-nighter to iron out quibbles over borders and water rights, the second surprise announcement of progress toward a formal end to hostilities in less than a week. The Israeli Cabinet approved the document today, hours after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed it in Amman. Both countries' legislatures are expected to ratify the document by week's end, and a final version will likely be signed Oct. 26 on the Israel-Jordan border. President Clinton, who hosted the two leaders for a Washington handshake...