Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charles River basin is subject to a special measure of environmental scrutiny because it is a national historic district, according to Julia B. O'Brien, the MDC's director of planning. The area has special protection under the state's constitution because it is considered park land...
...tabloid TV crews, rested after their exertions over Joey Buttafuoco, Tonya Harding, Michael Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, have rushed back into the trailer park of American sleaze. Is it fair that the President should be vulnerable to lurid my-word-against-his-wo rd charges that might be made by anyone with an impulse to become famous by sliming the mighty...
...television, create a sort of virtual reality in which no one is quite accountable and consequences can be annulled by changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park daytime television even has its academic counterpart in structuralism and deconstruction, whose practitioners sever reality from "text" and thereby render everything vulnerable to the most subjective, onanistic reading...
Streisand recalls the times with girlish enthusiasm. "I was usually late to the theater every night. I used to try to get a cab on Central Park West, and half the time I couldn't get the cab. I would hail police cars, trucks, anything, with tears streaming down my cheeks, to try to get me to the theater. I was always late -- have to get in there, put on the clothes, get on the stage. And when ((method-acting guru)) Lee Strasberg came to see me, I said, 'I feel so bad I can't use your method...
...Hyde Park, New York...