Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MORE. The Topps Chewing Gum Company has brought an official end to my childhood by rupturing the holy matrimony between baseball cards and bubble gum. In case anyone missed the point, the firm now calls itself The Topps Company, Inc., severing the link for good...
Harvard Square has been the center for public transportation for more than a century. In the 1980s, however, the area was dug up entirely to complete a link in the modern red line, the newest addition to Boston's T trains. The Kiosk containing Out of town News was put on wheels, then removed from the area entirely during construction. The state rebuilt the face of Wigglesworth which faces Mass. Ave. to protect the frosh from deafening noise. The T stop was opened to the public...
...Cincinnati, the characters are feral, the action grim and the vocabulary redolent of the ! gutter. Lake Street sets a father who sexually molested his son against a Salvadoran soldier who joined in the mass murder of peasants. The 90 taut minutes strip away layers of secrets and suggest a link between the men's sins -- a dependence on the propensity of bourgeois Americans to look away from ugly facts rather than decry them. A compulsively watchable young actor, Keith Brush, portrays the incest victim grown up into a punky, self-pitying male prostitute...
...teach his lessons. The professor, 30, confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked" that the professor had helped in the escape. At week's end Petrik was behind bars, facing a seven-year prison term with no sabbaticals, and one of the jailbirds had been caught. Give the prof...
...anymore. Last week Armenian fighters cut a six-mile corridor through Azerbaijan to link Karabakh to the Armenian republic, then launched an artillery assault on the Azeri territory of Nakhichevan, which borders Iran and Turkey. Washington, Moscow and Tehran all strongly condemned the surprisingly forceful Armenian military moves. And in Ankara the main opposition party called on the Turkish government to send troops to Nakhichevan to defend the Azeris, who are ethnic Turks...