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Mulhern's top-corner snipe past a screened Israel put a pretty lid on the evening of hockey, but those 3,033 intrepid alumni and students that braved the cold and distance to reach Bright suffered through a game of pumpkin-pie consistency--thick and gooey...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Icemen Fight Injuries, Tie Brown, 3-3 | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...long "wings" that provide power to the telescope. During the full day needed for this task, Thornton and Akers will precisely follow hundreds of steps, using bolts, electrical connectors, Velcro and 84 sq. yds. of plastic. And somehow they must do it all while swathed in their thick space suits -- a condition astronauts jokingly compare with being mummified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Do-Or-Die Mission | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...logo for The Kentucky Cycle features a pioneer woman, jut-jawed and thick-necked, cradling a child in her arms, flanked by a blandly noble plowman and a grimacing boy brandishing a gun. Pay attention to the boy with the gun. While this nine-play, six-hour vision of the making of America hits all the traditional themes of patriotic pageantry, it sees the national character as violent, deceitful and cruel. Firearms or knives are used in seven of the plays. The other two practice violence of the soul -- a bankruptcy "trial" that turns a man into a serf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Dark History | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread . . ." If the state is unlucky, a spark, man-made or natural, will strike the canyon vegetation, thick and green in the damp months but now dried to tinder. The spiky brown chaparral brush will ignite like old Christmas trees, and a canyon will become a fire corridor through which flames roar faster than a man can run, burning at temperatures high enough to melt metal, billowing to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Like the Wind | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...actors to speed through dialogue. Unfortunately, this sense of urgency sometimes results in muddled delivery, confusing the audience even further. The production is in best form when the actors are allowed to employ body language and action sequences to move the plot, creating tension between the characters that is thick and explosive...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Worth Getting Caught In Thrilling Deathtrap | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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