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Ross effectively used stage accessories to inject humor into the production. A refrigerator, wrapped in red ribbon, dropped out of the sky like a prize in some hellishly flamboyant game show. Unfortunately for the Duchess, this morbid gift from her brothers contained a man whom she believed was the murdered Antonio...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Sadism and Flying Refrigerators | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

...England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, a banner bearing the now-familiar yellow ribbon reads "We Support Our Troops." It greets residents as they pass through a metal detector and check in at the front desk for their bed assignments...

Author: By June Shih, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Homeless Vietnam Vets Support Gulf Troops | 3/6/1991 | See Source »

...believe the support. I just wish someone was wearing a yellow ribbon when I was coming home," says Quinlan. "[The troops] were heroes before they went...

Author: By June Shih, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Homeless Vietnam Vets Support Gulf Troops | 3/6/1991 | See Source »

...decision was made after two first-year students, Nathaniel S. Brackett and Diane L. Scheu, attracted national media attention because they refused to take down an American flag and a yellow ribbon...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Cornell Removes Flag Ban | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

Would a black armband be exempted from official regulations as readily as a yellow ribbon or a flag? So popular is the war effort that the question has not come up yet -- and Marco Lokar did not stay around long enough to raise it. But as people like Lokar and Dunn are finding out, the fewer dissenters there are, the more they need protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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