Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Between four and eight shots were fired near the Pit, the suaken area behind the MBTA escalators between John F. Kennedy Street and Mass. Ave. People near the shooting either ran into the stores along the intersection or dove to the sidewalks to protect themselves, witnesses said...
...That's what things looked like to me." But really, the movie's script and style were born of necessity. Rodriguez built the screenplay around the assets available to him for the 14- day shoot in Acuna, Mexico: a hotel, two bars, a school bus, a motorcycle and a pit bull. All became elements in the story -- plus a turtle found on the road. He laid on the gore to please his intended audience of Mexican videophiles and added a strong female character just to twit them. "If I thought a lot of people were going to see this...
...black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies out of The Snake Pit...
This tax would pit Northern oil users against Southern producers and has already stirred a cat fight within the energy industry. Nineteen Congressmen from New England, which depends more heavily on imported oil for electricity and home heating than any other region, last week sent Bentsen a letter opposing an import fee. Complains William Whall, a blind Korean War veteran who lives in New Hampshire: "I just converted to oil heat, and now Clinton wants to whack me with an oil-import fee. I can't stand it. It seems like you get taxed if you do and taxed...
...should admit that his experience might be put to a less nefarious use. Harvard especially ought not overlook the man's talent. Sometimes I find myself repeating his angry mantra. "Clear the square," I mutter, not referring to Tiananmen. The particular quadrilateral to which I allude is that notorious pit of filth, both human and chemical, which we call Harvard Square...