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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past month, officers posing as dealers have begun nabbing would-be buyers. The police are also confiscating -- permanently -- the automobiles of people who try to purchase dope through their car windows. Says Levant: "We are going to make life miserable for users until they realize that every dollar they spend for drugs adds to the violence in this country...
Other institutions in society also play an important role in the development of young people--especially families, schools, and communities of faith. But only a minority of children will live their entire youth in a two-parent family, and the time they spend with adults of any kind has been dropping steadily for several decades. Schools are often preoccupied with problems of racial integration, political intervention, drugs, and strikes while suffering the effects of a long-term decline in the status of teachers. Religious institutions no long seem as able as they once were to impart basic values...
...annual meetings, said scholars who have attended the three-day retreats in the past, speakers spend five or 10 minutes making short presentations and then the congressmen and academics have informal discussions. Aside from the budget, those in attendance often discuss electoral politics, they said...
PLOTWISE and character-wise, P.S. Your Cat is Dead is like the final season of The Love Boat. Acting-wise, the play is uneven, but the good actors are the ones who spend the most time onstage anyway. The play itself is a little more than the sum of its parts. It comes off rather well if you can weather the banality of the script and just enjoy the two main characters...
...mean really old) theme. Right after breaking up with his girlfriend (Eliza Rosenbluth), Zoole captures hapless burglar Vito Antonucci (David Condon) as the latter tries to escape from his apartment. Zoole ties him to the kitchen counter and inflicts a variety of comic insults upon him. They spend most of the play talking, and in the process they find out about themselves and each other, share touching and comic moments...