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Indeed, over the final 1,000 meters of the race, Radcliffe began to tire and fade, while Dartmouth maintained its speed and eventually took the lead late in the race. Syracuse was never really a factor...

Author: By Jonathan Finer, | Title: Dartmouth Defeats Radcliffe Heavies | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...long johns. Take the predicament of 122,000 year-round residents of New York State's 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. The park was to be "forever wild," and the state's 22-year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost the property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARTH DAY BLUES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...extended "visit," bringing a two-ton suitcase. Randy is having an affair with a married woman whom she meets intermittently in the bathroom of the gas station where Randy works. Complications arise when Evie Roy (Nicole Parker) shows up at the gas station with an alleged flat tire and a phobia of pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay out of the way ("Oh my God I'm such a spaz!" she cries). The reduced view captures the sexual potential underlying the situation as, inevitably, their legs...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Women's Cinema Fest, On Love | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

Despite having passed the monolith countlesstimes, we never noticed the Necco factory until aflat bike tire brought us to the repair shopacross the street. The building dates back to 1927and radiates an aura of factory functionalityyou'd expect in a 1950's New England manufacturingtown that was once the ideal of American industry...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...wood with his fist. ``You know what really kills me?'' he asks with a bitter chuckle. ``The whole goddam reason I voted was because I'm so sick of crime and the lack of values in this country.'' Now Thomlin relies on his own solution: he keeps a tire iron in his bedroom for protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATE OF THE UNION | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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