Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JITNEY With all the fashionable cynicism around, August Wilson's warm-spirited embrace of his characters looks almost radical. This early work, given a "definitive" rewrite by Wilson and staged anew in Boston and Baltimore, immerses us in the day-to-day life of a gypsy cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., and proves once again that Wilson is one of our most accomplished, full-bodied dramatists...
...world will spend New Year's Eve [LIVING, Nov. 29], you suggested that Yanomami tribe members in Roraima, Brazil, will probably ignore the millennium and go to bed early. But at midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they'll get back to more important things, like...
...corpor-ocracy. Globalization has the potential to gradually lift all countries to higher standards for the environment, labor laws and justice. Instead, the WTO, multinational companies and governments are using globalization and open trade to circumvent democratically enacted laws that emphasize the need for a better quality of life and more balanced values. KERRY MCDANIEL Berkeley, Calif...
INDICTED. WEN HO LEE, 59, nuclear-weapons scientist, on 59 counts of mishandling classified data from the Los Alamos weapons laboratory, where he was employed. The Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, who was not charged with espionage, faces the possibility of life in prison...
...VIDEOTAPE If yours is like most families, you'll be renting movies to watch together this holiday season, to help get into the spirit. What kind of spirit? In a poll for the video chain Blockbuster, 1 in 3 respondents cited It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas as the film that best represents their typical holiday experience. Another 1 in 3 named Home for the Holidays, Home Alone or Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas as most representative...