Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed and Mark Hanna drooling, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder offered $130 million to construct roads and rail links to a stadium Cooke would build and own. And Cooke gets to keep all proceeds from food and parking...
Some years back, the Virginia Retirement System, a state pension fund, paid $350 million for these 320 acres of land, intending to develop it for mixed commercial-residential use. This is still mixed use: Cooke has use for free land and Wilder for political glory. Virginians with sharp ears could catch the sound of a state pocket being picked. Says Congressman Jim Moran of a plan that would bring the city few economic perks: "It is a classic case of how not to conduct public policy." Officials in Washington could only fear that getting Skinned meant the town would...
...portrayal of Matt, Wilder turns in a solid performance. But he and Rowlett flounder in a few scenes together; when their characters are supposed to be uncomfortable themselves...
...emotionally needy Radcliffe alumna, a self-described writer whose role seems limited to one line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...
THERE HAVE BEEN 18 EXECUTIONS IN THE U.S. SO FAR this year. But none as controversial as the case of Roger Keith Coleman. Denied clemency by Governor Douglas Wilder, Coleman was placed in a Virginia electric chair last week for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law Wanda Fay McCoy. Nearly 15,000 Americans besieged the Governor's office with calls and letters opposing the execution. In the days preceding his death, Coleman's attorneys waged a frantic attempt to gain him an appeal but were refused by two courts. Coleman himself passed these final hours pleading...