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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuomo called it "democracy at work," and to those who watched the street fight over abortion in Buffalo last week, it seemed a fresh expression of America's divided conscience. But on the ground, the confrontation had all the emotional subtlety of a tantrum and the animation of a trench-warfare standoff. It left Buffalo lost between two realities. On the television screen, the city served up all the passion and props that courtroom terms like "strict scrutiny" and "compelling interest" cannot deliver. In the Buffalo area, however, the clinics were not closed down, traffic was hardly disrupted, and citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffalo Operation Fizzle | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Three Men in Trench Coats Present Love--electric jazz concert by drummer Daryl Mclntosh. Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston St., Boston. Firday, Feb. 14, 4 p.m. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...designer Antony McDonald confirms the bizarre timeless and time-warped world which Hamlet inhabits-characters walk obliviously among sloped walls, tilted windows and mixed period costumes. Persons of the Court dress in sedate gray, crimson or black uniforms and evening gowns. Visitors to Elsinore wear three-piece suits and trench coats, and each Player sports a different decade's styles...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: The Madness of Hamlet's World | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...time we took our brightest and our best and said, Be a lawyer, be a judge, be a Governor, be the dean of a university, be the editor of a newspaper. We're involved in a cultural civil war. Right now there are very few Christians involved in the trench warfare. Part of my mission is to challenge Christian families to deliberately raise up their children to serve and to lead, in every walk of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: RANDALL TERRY | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

When the prices were higher, hit-men used to be solely the domain of the richer, and ever so much classier, Mafia-types. They remained shadowy underworld figures who hid Uzis under their trench coats and worked for world terrorist organizations...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Low-Budget American Realism | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

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