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...turned out to be the death rattle of the Angkor civilization, went on perhaps the greatest building spree of all Khmer kings, but the sandstone available by his time was of a much lower quality than that used at Angkor Wat. When first discovered, the Bayon was already so decrepit that archaeologists believed it was one of the earliest temples instead of one of the last...
...have their snaps taken for a Warhol portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress...
This is Major Indoor Lacrosse, Boston's newestbig time professional sport. Imported fromWorcester, the New England Blazers have traded thecavernous Centrum for the decrepit Garden...
...into some cheap motels on a seedy avenue of used-car dealerships, pawn-shops and nightclubs. Within weeks they sent for the kids, who showed up the day before Nicole's 10th birthday. As she stepped out of the car at 5 a.m., Nicole took one look at the decrepit motel and asked, "Where are we going to live, Mom?" Tamey's response: "Here." Her daughter shrugged her shoulders, thinking they would move to a house the next day. "But we didn't," Nicole recalls, "because we didn't have...
Democrat Ray Mabus was hailed as the new face of Mississippi politics when he was elected Governor in 1987 -- a 39-year-old Harvard grad who vowed to fight racism and improve his state's decrepit public schools. But with his reform package thwarted by a stubborn legislature and the state economy sliding, Mississippi voters booted Mabus out in favor of Kirk Fordice, a Vicksburg building contractor who had never before sought political office. Fordice, 57, became Mississippi's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction largely by attacking Mabus for failing to deliver on his promises. But the Republican also played...