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...excellent and versatile acting is the only thing that makes this performance worth watching. David Travis perfectly captures the body language and tone of voice of a little girl who loves obscene jump-rope rhymes and messy ice cream pops. John Knepper is impressive as the vacant-eyed but sly Joshua and then as Edward's swaggering, promiscuous lover Jerry. The rest of the cast also turns in a fine performance...
...hang out HELP WANTED signs. The mountain of debt that everyone from consumers to corporate chieftains took on in the '80s continues to hobble spending, and it forces companies to keep tight control of costs. At the same time, the overbuilding binge that glutted America's skylines with vacant buildings has pushed the construction industry into a depression and helped precipitate a general credit crunch. And the end of the cold war means that defense contractors could slash as many as 900,000 jobs over the next six years...
Last Thursday, workers marched to President Neil L. Rudenstine's presently vacant home in an attempt to force administrators into reaching new agreements before today, the expiration date of the current contract...
...small aqua-colored newsstand is boarded up and vacant now, but its owner, Joseph R. Indelicato Jr. is determined to reopen it. Indelicato is currently petitioning the city to allow him to expand his line of products to include not only newspapers and magazines but also lottery tickets, racing forms and other items...
...sort of bittersweet tale Hans Christian Andersen might have spun. An old man with a vacant stare was discovered sitting in a wheelchair at a dog-racing park. Two attached notes identified him as an Alzheimer's patient in need of round-the-clock nursing care. Outrage and sympathy poured in from around the country, and complete strangers offered to take...