Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state--the judge took the unusual step of doubling the local property tax. The money bought, among other things, a planetarium, radio and TV studios, and 1,000 computers for Central High School's 1,069 students. Central, which before Clark's order was awash in broken toilets and overrun by rodents, now occupies a $32 million building that resembles a small city's airline terminal and features an Olympic-size swimming pool...
...allow a full probe into suspected mass graves. They also pledged cooperation with war-crimes investigators. The commander of NATO-led forces in Bosnia said there may be 200 to 300 mass graves in Bosnia. As many as 7,000 people are missing from Srebrenica alone, which was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces last July. By week's end, Bosnian Croats and Muslims had freed 250 prisoners; the Serbs none...
...never canvas, and heavily framed. The paint is constantly reworked--not fiddled with, but glazed and obliterated over the years by successive coats. Each is a palimpsest, one improvisation partly burying another but leaving hints of it behind. Pigment covers the frame as well as the board, wanting to overrun the confines of surface. Even when Hodgkin's paintings are on the wall, you think of picking them up, the small ones especially, and hefting them in your hand. Dense, resistant lumps of color, real things in the real world--a status reflected by one of Hodgkin's wittier titles...
...Jumanji finds an audience, our point will be proved. Director Joe Johnston's elaborately dressed kids' movie--about a board game that sucks its players into a perilous jungle overrun by lions, rhinos, monkeys, crocodiles and spiders--spends so much time on the how of special effects that it neglects the why of characterization. Jumanji wastes the gifts of two terrific comic actors, Robin Williams and David Alan Grier, and some other good people (Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt). Like the viewer, everyone on-screen pretty much sits back, gets strapped in and takes a bumpy techno-thrill ride through...
...Buchanan? Phil Gramm?" But the truth is that my state, like much of the rest of the country, is overrun by wild turkeys these days, and not all of them are running for President. A quarter-century ago there weren't any wild turkeys here and only a handful elsewhere in the East. I had seen some in Missouri, on an outing with a clever fellow who made turkey calls out of condoms and bits of wire. But from Maine to Florida, and in most of the rest of the country, they had been shot out in the early 19th...