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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Civil Wars is bleaker and more brutal than anything Bochco has done before: an unrelenting parade of vengeful spouses, greed, infidelity, callousness and other mental cruelties. "You're bitter, you're needy, and you're gonna poison whatever and whoever you come in contact with!" shouts a husband at the wife he wants to leave because she has gained too much weight. (She actually looks pretty good.) A rich couple bickers over custody of sterling silver soup tureens and antique snuffboxes, until a stenographer -- who is struggling to pay her son's medical bills -- blows up: "You have no idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorce, Bochco-Style | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

True, she's the only one to bite the dust from poison. True, unintended casualties are held to a minimum. But still, ant death by constipation can't be a pretty sight...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

...roommate's computer just died and we're attributing that to ants," said Jason L. Meil '92, a Dunster resident who said he was going to visit his entryway tutor for the poison yesterday...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Dunster Prepares To Battle Ant Menace | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

Strychnine or arsenic, Louisiana? Pick your poison. That's about the only way to look at the state's gubernatorial race, which took on a noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Duke of Louisiana | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Successive songs only added to this powerful display of talent. "Poison Ivy," featuring Gordon Woodward's polished solo, took the audience back to the early days of rock 'n' roll; and "Ain't Misbehavin'," featuring a solid solo from Jennifer Hunter, proved that jazz is not above the Callbacks...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: This Jam Was Not Stuck in Traffic | 10/17/1991 | See Source »

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