Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safe in an earthquake, the best thing you can do is build in steel," said engineer Peter Yanev, president of EQE. He pointed to a relatively new concrete parking structure that collapsed at the California State University campus in Northridge and to two adjacent multistory garages in Sherman Oaks at the lower lip of the San Fernando Valley -- one of concrete and in ruins, the other of steel and standing...
According to court documents, "in 1991, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department brought this suit alleging that the Ivy (League) Overlap Group unlawfully conspired to restrain trade in violation of section one of the Sherman Act... by (1) agreeing to award financial aid exclusively on the basis of need; (2) agreeing to utilize a common formula to calculate need; and (3) collectively settling, with only insignificant discrepancies, each commonly-admitted student's family contribution toward the price of tuition...
...relying on his own life for inspiration, McElwee creates a modern version of material which used to be documented only in journals. His "visual essays," as he calls them, capture his surroundings with poignancy and humor, spiced with metaphysical ramblings. "Time Indefinite" continues the story of "Sherman's March," McElwee's 1986 film, which was originally intended to document the path General William Tecumseh Sherman took through the South in the Civil War. Instead McElwee wound up pursuing other interests, namely women...
...couch this dilemma wittily, as screenwriter Martin Sherman does, but you can't really evade its darker implications. Director Waris Hussein doesn't try. His style is objective without being cool or repressed in the all-too- common English manner. He avoids playing for big laughs the mostly awful social situations in which his characters find themselves. Even a drunk scene between Plowright and Moreau is low-keyed. It is very agreeable to discover a movie in which everything is not foreshadowed, underlined, commented upon. In other words, The Summer House is disciplined in the way that British theatrical productions...
...businessman originally from Connecticut. "Given the benefits -- the business opportunities, the weather, the life-style -- I used to think, 'That's a fair bargain.' Now I'm not so sure." Others feel helpless. "If they say my house can't be saved," said political consultant Jill Banks-Barad, whose Sherman Oaks home was damaged, "I don't know what I'll do or where...