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...minutes later, MacDonald scored again off a feed from sophomore winger Robbie Millar. Millar sped up the ice from just inside the neutral zone into the middle of the right face-off circle, splitting two defensemen in the process...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Icemen Back on Track After Doubling Up on Dartmouth | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...even if Buchner's vignettes themselves are unconventional, director Marcus Stern refuses to leave them alone. Sped up to the pace of an action movie, Gideon Lester's new translation of Woyzeck is as beaten and pushed around as its title character. The ART warps and distorts any semblance of coherence within the play. The production races through over twenty-five scenes in under sixty minutes, scarcely allowing the audience to breathe, let alone to analyze or reflect. Woyzeck (Thomas Derrah) drops through trap-doors, dashes up ladders and circles the stage. Scene changes resemble film cuts; music clips...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: 'Nature Unidealized, Transmogrified Humans' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...itself at a rapid pace, which accelerated last year after a nasty trade dispute in which the Clinton Administration threatened to slap a 100% tariff on luxury cars like Toyota's Lexus. Shortly afterward, Toyota executives swooped into Indiana to pick a site for the T100 truck plant and sped up the timetable for the new West Virginia factory. Says senior vice president Jim Olson, a 16-year Ford veteran who joined Toyota in 1985: "It will now be very difficult for the Big Three to attack us as the enemy at the border. We're across the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYOTA ROAD USA | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away, losing the police in traffic. Knight told authorities his head was turned the other way at the key moment and he saw nothing. Said police spokesman Phil Roland: "We're puzzled that [his] whole entourage had their heads turned and didn't see anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT GOES 'ROUND ... | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...that time, artistic director Mark O'Maley does just about everything you can do with a stage draped in tinfoil, a strobe light and an actor in a metallic suit. Briefly, what happens is this: as the poem is heard on the sound track--mixed and looped, sped up and slowed down, intermingled with classical music, rock, and a pounding techno beat--Erik Amblad performs a highly elaborate pantomime, in which his only prop is a large red chair...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Prayers to Broken Tin Foil | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

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