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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confound the New York theater scene by accepting a part in a much-ballyhooed revival of Frederick Knott's classic 1966 thriller, Wait Until Dark. Tarantino plays Harry Roat, a ruthless drug smuggler who coerces two small-time hoods (Stephen Lang and Juan Hernandez) into helping him recover a shipment of heroin hidden in the apartment of an unwitting couple. When they discover that Suzy (Marisa Tomei), the homebound wife, is blind, the crooks wait for her husband to leave and begin staging what they think will be an easy con. Naturally, Suzy proves to be a worthier adversary than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tarantino 'Acting' In a Play | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...bare skeletons before he hit pay dirt: the well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that her fat had insulated her organs from the effects of decades of frost and thaw. He took both lungs, sliced them into thin strips and carefully packed them for shipment. Hultin named the body "Lucy," a nod to the prehistoric Lucy who shed so much light on human origins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

Similarly, misstatements on the software box were discovered in mid-August, and shipment continued until Kaplan filed the law suit...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Review, Kaplan Settle Dispute | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

...holding shipment pending the new book cover and software packaging, because that's the right thing to do-not because the court told us to do that," he added...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Review, Kaplan Settle Dispute | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

Downs sent a $200 check for a shipment of cosmetics. Instead of the prize, she began getting calls from other telemarketing firms--one in Utah, one in Louisiana and four more in Las Vegas. The firms belonged to a new breed of con artist, those who regularly buy and sell names for their mooch lists, at prices ranging from $10 for an untested "lead" to $200 for the name of someone who has fallen for a whole series of scams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELDERSCAM | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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