Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit, filed last year by the daughter of a Harvard Professor, alleges that the University failed to provide her with adequate security. As a result, the suit says, a man, who has never been identified, was able to break into her family's Faculty Row home in April 1991 and rape...
...suit alleges that Jewett, who lives in Faculty Row, was negligent in not ordering an inspection or security survey of the plaintiff's residence and by not requesting installation of an alarm system in the residence. The suit alsochrages that the dean failed to warm the plaintiffof prior break-ins to Faculty Row residences...
Where they're going, on Jessica's suggestion, is death -- live. She pays a visit to the state prison's death row and persuades Dennis Casterline (Tim Daly), a convicted murderer and rapist, to permit live TV to witness his execution; in return, his four-year-old daughter will receive a share of revenues from the event. The network sets up the electric chair in an arena dubbed the Megadome, launches a huge publicity campaign and goes about converting this most grisly of affairs into prime-time entertainment. "The doctor wants to know how close you want to be," someone...
This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
...audience, thoroughly flummoxed, responded with prolonged applause. As the full-bearded, heavyset Ricky Jay stepped forward to take a bow, a voice shouted from the fourth row, "How did you do that?" "I wasn't aware," replied the conjurer, allowing himself a small smile, "that we'd come to the question-and-answer portion of the show...