Word: playing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
...hesitation. "None. I just loved to play the game...
...first look, the calendar to the Brattle Theatre is an overwhelming conglomeration of new films, old films, foreign films, thrillers, fantasies and animations. But is there any rhyme and reason behind the pictures that play, and the people who run the Theatre...
...been around then," Putnams says, "it would have been tempting to say, and some people did say: 'Life was a lot nicer back on the farm. Everybody back the farms, please, where we could leave the kids to play and they could make their own friends, and we didn't have to go through this Boy Scouts schtick...
...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...