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...Flaherty, the composer for “Ragtime.” From the Currier House musical “Peanut Butter and Juliet”—a transposition of Shakespeare’s play into the American South with “two warring families at opposing truck stops”—to “The Life and Many Deaths of Mister Plumb,” Mitnick’s work is saturated with his distinctive style. In “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” the antagonism between the peanut butter sandwich...
...auteur of the sublime Men in Black movies, which may just have been the most deliriously acute comedies of the last decade. But you have to remember that in those pictures the alien invaders often took up residence in our trashiest environments, places where the pickup truck was parked in the front yard and meatloaf was on the kitchen table. You also have to remember that the films argued that Sylvester Stallone was just possibly an extra-terrestrial in disguise and that the supermarket tabloids, with their giddy accounts of UFO landings and the births of two-headed cows , were...
...Most of Hada's countrymen seem to share his optimism. While he is speaking, young men holding red and white flags - the flag of the Nepali Congress, one of the leading political parties of the country - jump in to a pickup truck, and shout: "Long live democracy!" In a little while, they will join the drive towards Kathmandu, like several thousands of people who are pouring into the capital to celebrate their victory over the King. The roads towards Kathmandu, just a day ago deserted due to the curfew, are now jammed with noisy pickup trucks, buses, and cars draped...
...streets, is already breaking a proclamation of his King, and he's now just about to make things worse. Chaulagain, 27, and a few of his friends have set a row of tires on fire in the middle of the road -just at the spot where a truck full of blue-uniformed Nepali police has driven up. Chaulagain uses a stick, and pushes one of the burning tires right up to where the cops are and lets it roll on to the ground. His friends cheer: so does the crowd behind them, which is at least a couple of thousand...
...Gramm's reelection campaign in 1996. Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered that the driver of the truck was illegally licensed, the tragedy helped set off the broader Ryan corruption investigation, which revealed a rampant scheme in which state workers were trading licenses for cash - going so far in some cases...