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...City Council, which passed the 1991 law, disagreed. Calling advertisements urban nuisances and an eyesore, the council gave Ackerley and the Revere-based Rite Media Inc., which owns the other five billboards, four years to remove them...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Billboards Will Be Outlawed in City | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

...Ackerley's billboards, 36 are 12 by 25 feet and 11 are 14 by 48 feet. Rite Media's billboards are all 14 by 48 feet in size...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Billboards Will Be Outlawed in City | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

...idea, resetting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet among teenage street gangs in the 1950s. Slang may change and violence levels escalate, but the drama of the star-crossed city kids has never dated, nor has its appeal diminished. For the choreographer, now 76, the show has become a personal rite of renewal. Last week he renewed it once more, this time as a suite of dances for the New York City Ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: JEROME ROBBINS: WEST SIDE GLORY | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...lost as the action is streamlined, the conflict becomes more abstract. Officer Krupke is a police whistle. The dancers' gestures should be forceful and realistic, but some of the performers, including Jock Soto as the Shark leader, are too stylized. Occasionally what should be a fight becomes a rite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: JEROME ROBBINS: WEST SIDE GLORY | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the amorous duo, the cruel king of England has come up with a new scheme to keep Scotland under the English yoke. The ancient fertility rite of "prima notte," or first night, is reinstated. This means that when a woman marries, the lord of her district will have the right/duty to have sex with her. The English soldiers interpret this new plan as license to take any woman they see, and Murron catches the eye of one licentious soldier, She lashes out drwingte wrath of tother English soldiers, and William helps her to escape. Incensed by this attack...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Gibson's Kilts Come up Short | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

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