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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston, WILD tries to fill the role of community station, but it is too small and too poor to do it. Jam'n has the resources, but, if anything, is anti-community. Its main selling point is its "Jam-Scams," essentially a grown-up version of a middle school prank, in which Baltazar torments his victims by telling them (falsely) that their cars will be impounded or that their houses will be foreclosed upon. The scammed person invariably gets angrier and angrier, leading to bleeped-out expletives, giggles from the 'Zar, and finally a promise from the scammed...
...culture counterpart, it was Billy Wilder, Hollywood's cynic in chief. Indeed, his Double Indemnity would have made a perfect Fosse show, for both men were drawn to seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have been Fosse's idols...
...exercise version of the Year 2000 problem-except, in this case, it's the people, not the computers, who won't work. Officials are making plans instead for the year...
Residents of Dudley Co-op hosted their own version of the Primal Scream on Monday night--in the middle of Lamont Library...
...creating the T-Bird required some auto archaeology for the designers, several of whom weren't even concepts when the original was born. They collected vintage models on which to base the new version. The result is a silky interpretation of the original, built on ultramodern innards...