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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...production that demonstrates it may be his best play. Shepard charts with savage humor the cruelties exchanged among a grindingly poor rural family. Slaughtering their animals has inured them to violence. Sharing the isolation of farm life has made them eager to sneak off. Knowing one another's sore spots has only rendered their aim more deadly. The plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge in sentiment about vanishing ways of life. His focus is on familial stealth and cunning, on betrayals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Is Where the Heart Sinks: CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Townspeople near the hazardous-waste site in Casmalia, Calif., allege that they are suffering from runny noses, bronchitis, sore throats, headaches and eye irritation. Santa Barbara county officials have been at work clarifying the problem. They found the area was experiencing a spider migration described by the agricultural commissioner as "common." If cobwebs can result in community hysteria and "burning skin and eyes," certainly the odors common to any waste facility have little chance of being understood. Jan Lachenmaier Director of Public Relations Casmalia Resources Santa Barbara, Calif. Soviet Charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...sore spots going away? A. Oh, yes. There's an eleven-inch line [scar] there [pointing to stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Conversation with Ronald Reagan | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...senior admitted, in a rare moment, that his knee was “sore,” and that it showed “some aggravation and swelling.” But that was it. No more...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey's Cavanagh Skated With Torn ACL for Nearly Three Months | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...senior admitted, in a rare moment, that his knee was “sore,” and that it showed “some aggravation and swelling.” But that was it. No more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

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