Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they push, pull, carry and drag heavy burdens from a warehouse on the Allston side of the Charles River, down JFK street, across the Anderson Bridge, to Harvard Yard, the River Houses and the Quad. The fortunate hire taxicabs--or manage to catch one of the shuttle buses that park nearby and happen along sporadically--alleviating their task somewhat. The rest trudge along, like packmules, resigned to their sorry fate...
...some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California...
Skater Tonya Harding reported being assaulted and bruised by a man last Thursday night as she was heading through a park toward the Beaverton, Oregon, apartment where she has been staying with friends. Police are searching for the attacker...
Museum of Science. Science Park, Boston. 723-2500. Through May 15. Mysteries of the Bog, an exhibition of an ecosystem native to North American and Europe...
Forever Plaid. Indefinite run. In Stuart Ross's tribute to the "guy groups" of the `50s and `60s, the Plaids, a semi-pro harmony group Killed on the eve of their first big-time gig, have come back from the dead to croon their tunes. Boston Park Plaza Hostel, 64 Arlington St., Boston. Call 357-8384 for more information...