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Word: appealling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short film that seems very long. There are nice little scenes and nice minor characters, but these nice little things keep coming along without moving the movie very far. The film could have easily been tightened up around the characters of Cassie and Riley without much loss of subplot appeal...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Last week a U.S. district court dismissed the suit. "There are only very limited ways to draw the figure of a cartoon ghost," said Judge Peter Leisure. But the ghost could come back to haunt another judge because Harvey may appeal the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trademarks: Who Ya Gonna Call, Fatso? | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Enchanter is hardly the "dead scrap" that Nabokov called it when he first wrote it in Paris. The short novel has the appeal of the author's distinct style. It demonstrates his method of patterning fiction which, in Nabokov's words, combines "the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...Centro Presente's clients has ever been deported. "So long as a refugee has a political asylum case in progress, they can't deport him. And when we lose, then we can appeal the case, and so long as the appeal is still in process, they have to let him stay," Gordon says. "We appeal all the cases. The appeals process is our only weapon--we are able to use the slow judicial process to buy time...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Taking Refuge in Cambridge | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...monetary damages, to be determined by a jury trial. Said William Farmer, Tennessee advocate general and a member of the defense team: "A separate reading class will not shelter these children from all the things which they find objectionable in the public school curriculum." The defendants said they will appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Thou Shalt Not Teach | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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