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Seay said she believes it was impossible forLee Harvey Oswald to fire all the shots atKennedy. She called the conception of the eventson which the Warren Commission based itsconclusions the "magic bullet buffs' myth...

Author: By Jennifer L. Hanson, | Title: Theorists Urge Study Of JFK's Assassination | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...year span: some in conjunction with Wilson's work in Hamburg, some back in the U.S. with Waits' own band. At the core of Wilson's Black Rider is a Faustian tale of a peasant who makes a pact with the devil. The peasant gets a set of magic bullets, thinking they will enable himto win a marksmanship contest and with it, histrue love; however, the devil has different plans,and the poor peasant goes crazy when the lastmagic bullet kills his beloved. Waits' Far Easternmelodies, punishing staccatos, and derangedwaltzes evoke as well as anything around a poor,crazy peasant...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Human Oddities | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Former President George Bush thought we did. He rushed to sign NAFTA before the Republican Convention. Bush saw the treaty as a silver bullet--a foreign policy coup which demonstrated his concern for the American economy...

Author: By Jacques E. C. hymans, | Title: Economics Outside the Beltway | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

NAFTA was a silver bullet all right, but it was heading straight toward Bush...

Author: By Jacques E. C. hymans, | Title: Economics Outside the Beltway | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...enjoyable despite their random nature. The play's development is always one step ahead of the audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Worth Getting Caught In Thrilling Deathtrap | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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