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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Scooby found an occasional secret passage, inviting seven-year-old minds to probe further, asking "Who could possibly want to destroy the amusement park?" However, in this play, the plot does not draw one in. Even when the audience learns the identity of the murderer, the climax of the play, there seems no suspense because there is no logical reason for his (or her) guilt. There are no clues, no plot progression or twists. The line are stale and occasionally incoherent, tangential to strang degrees. When Marge delivers a line about the British Royal Army in the context...

Author: By Ian Z. Pervil, | Title: Don't Eat the 'Slaw'; Order Out | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...Thursday, Laverne Ward, 24, rang up his old girlfriend Deborah Evans, 28. Evans, a welfare mother with three children and another on the way, had moved away from Hanover Park, a drug-infested Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPED FROM THE WOMB | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Somewhere along the line, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow got turned into the epcot theme park, where people could visit the future, but only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Walt's idea of a utopia with residents was put on hold for a quarter of a century. Only then did the Disney Co., realizing it had more acres than it would ever need for theme parks, put the dream town back on the drawing board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...ever find on the talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into madness and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN DEFENSE OF TALK SHOWS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...chilling indication of just how far Chechen rebels may have gone in their fight for independence: in a huge Moscow park, members of a Russian television crew uncovered a cache of radioactive material right where Chechen leader Shamil Basayev reportedly had told them it would be. Russian authorities insisted the parcel posed no harm to the public. But four such packages have been smuggled into Russia, according to Basayev, who claimed that at least two of them also contain dynamite that could be detonated at will. "The war has become like a slow fuse," said Basayev, "but a small event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 19-25 | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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