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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Directing Arsenic and Old Lace is a challenge, requiring the coordination of physical farce and fast-paced verbal humor. Scott Schwartz incorporates eleborate action and even acrobatics into his production; characters prowl and struggle in the dark with corpses on their backs, and Officer Brophy even performs a spiffy cartwheel before pinning Jonathan Brewster...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Heiresses Have Fun With Arsenic | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

...Bosnia. The disenfranchised Muslims there already know what is in store for them if their homeland is officially deemed a Serbian statelet. For 10 months, they have seen their kinfolk murdered and driven from their homes by the hundreds of thousands. They experience terror nightly as drunken thugs prowl Banja Luka's icy streets. They have lost their jobs and most legal status: they need special papers just to walk freely under the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Guns Talk Too | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...dark and stormy night. The wind howls and werewolves prowl on the moors of the mysterious Mandacrest mansion...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Vampy and Campy, Irma Vep Still Lags | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

Rudnick has written a blackout comedy that moves like a 28-year-old kid on the prowl. Aided by the sprightly economy of Christopher Ashley's direction and a troupe of rubber-souled actors playing multiple roles, Rudnick lays out the panorama at double time: a game show, a Gay Pride march, a gay bashing, a taste of rough trade, a vision of Mother Teresa -- oh, yes, and a square dance. All with unfettered wit and a lot of heart. Who could ask for anything more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celibacy, The Safest Sex | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...former White House occupants still living ever saw or heard anything resembling the ghosts that legend insists sometimes prowl the premises. But hear Ronald Reagan's story, told in that husky voice of his: "A couple were sleeping as guests in Abraham Lincoln's bedroom. They were visitors more than once at the White House. And one morning the lady came forth and said that she had awakened and saw a figure standing down at the foot of the bed and looking out the windows. And when that figure turned, it was Abraham Lincoln. She said she swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Two Centuries and Counting | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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