Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from abroad. "If you go to a medical center, you will see how conditions have deteriorated," says Public Health Vice Minister Ramon Diaz Vallina. In many cases, diagnostic equipment stands idle for lack of spare parts and readout paper. Mammograms were cut back last year because of chronic X-ray-film shortages...
Providing that chance is the job of the half-pint, in a movie so desperately maneuvered that it's possibly unfair to blame Danson for defending himself against it. Culkin plays Timmy, the son whom widowed Ray hasn't seen for three years, and he arrives just as his dad and two confederates are about to rob a coin collection. This they manage with a cleverness that belies their alleged incompetence. But the boy steals the loot, and will give it back only if Ray will act the good father for a week -- you know, ball games, amusement parks, miniature...
Former Washington mayor Marion Barry is gaining steam in his bid for a comeback, despite his 1990 conviction for cocaine possession. A Washington Post poll shows Barry, now a city councilman, leading the D.C. mayor's race with 38 percent, 12 points ahead of challenger John Ray and 22 points above Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. While many black voters think Barry's trial made him a martyr to white racism, TIME senior correspondent Jack E. White says Kelly's recent municipal floundering has brought nostalgia for the '80s mayor: "The main thing is, he's remembered as a guy whom...
...melodies that leap out at the listener. Once again, they sing beautifully braided harmonies with the occasional hint of dissonance, and their lyrics as usual have an eloquent, freewheeling wordiness. "I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself," Saliers declares on Least Complicated. On This Train Revised, Ray reshapes the classic song This Train into a forceful, impressionistic account of her visit to Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Piss and blood in a railroad car/ 100 people gypsies queers and David's star...
...words to get attention. Although their CDs have sold consistently well -- their self-titled debut album went platinum -- both Girls harbor acid feelings about the image-conscious video age. "MTV has hurt music in one sense because people now judge a song by more than just the song," says Ray. But, she concedes, "in the sense of having another art form around -- video -- MTV is probably a good thing. If only they would be more responsible and not just play the same videos over and over again...