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...five.) They wrote one film musical, State Fair, and the TV special Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews. They were also hugely canny producers. Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun was but one of the works they produced that was not their own. Their flops--Allegro, Me and Juliet and Pipe Dream--were probably a result, as much as anything, of their trying too consciously to be innovative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN :The Showmen | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...blue-collar bungalows of this lush valley 110 miles south of Portland, all the grownups could talk about was what nurturing, sensible parents Faith and Bill Kinkel had been. All the kids could talk about was how "Kip" Kinkel liked to torture animals, collect guns, build small pipe bombs and joke about killing people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...clustering around the squat, gray-green high school building, look back, the signs seem all too clear. For his middle school yearbook, Kinkel was jokingly voted "most likely to start World War III." "He was really open about making bombs," confides T.J. Harty, 13. "Once he showed me a pipe bomb with a white fuse and said, 'I'm going to blow something up.'" Kip would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year. He seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...little weird but with plenty of friends. Although small for his age, he played football as a backup linebacker and took karate lessons. And if classmates failed to report his darker side, teachers seemed equally nonchalant. He reportedly gave a presentation in speech class on how to build a pipe bomb, complete with illustrations. In a literature course, he was said to have read from a diary in which he mentioned plans to "kill everybody." Asked at a news conference whether officials should have reacted, Springfield school superintendent Jamon Kent noted that funding cuts have reduced the counselor-to-student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...explaining that "I'm interested to know what kind of things people in William James study." As a regular subject, she recalls, "One of the most fun ones had me watch some educational videos and then work with a partner to try to make a bridge out of straws, pipe cleaners, Styrofoam cups, and popsicle sticks that was 'aesthetically pleasing and that could hold a weighted clip' at the end. We lost, but then when they had me work on my own to make the tallest structure possible, I did a pretty good job. That was fun because...

Author: By Sonia Inamdar, | Title: Subjects Wanted | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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