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...assume the title of baronet and fall victim to the curse. Meanwhile, having adopted the clever pseudonym "Robin," Ruthven falls in love with the village sweet-heart, the prissy flake Rose Maybud. For the rest of the first act, Ruthven competes with his unlikely foster brother, the salty sea-tar Richard, for Rose's hand. The first act is also plagued by the appearance of Mad Margaret, a woman supposedly crazed with love for Despard, who comes off less as a humorous character than as a frightening, overplayed British Cassandra...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Ruddigore--More Story, Less Time, Eh? | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...going to wear to his cousin's bar mitzvah. Perhaps it was a heavy tuxedo--or so the ceiling sprinkler head must have thought. After hanging the garment on the aforementioned safety equipment, the entire dorm quickly became flooded with water and some type of fire-retardant tar substance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCREAMING IN THE RAIN | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Residents said the building smelled like smoke and tar because of the oil that initially sprayed out of Nieman's sprinkler with the water...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis and William G. Nee, S | Title: Hollis Floors Flood, and More Than a Friday Night Is Ruined | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...billion worth of prevention programs is harder to tar uniformly. "Hope in Youth," which awards $20 million for "multi-issue forums for public policy discussion," is unadulterated pork. On the other hand, the widely derided late-night sports programs ($40 million) are meant to duplicate the inner-city "midnight basketball" games that many cops praise for helping keep idle kids off the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Fix the Crime Bill Now | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...living?" muttered one Angeleno who overheard the author being introduced at a Hollywood screening.) On behalf of the Long Beach public library, he also tutored illiterates, who in turn guided him to some of the area"s more exotic landmarks. On his own, Theroux discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wide Eyed in La-La Land | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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