Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago history. This particular chapter ended a few days ago when the political office of the Cook County coroner ceased to exist. It was abolished and has been replaced by a professional medical examiner. We are told this will make the investigation of deaths more efficient and scientific. Compared with the coroner's office, even Dr. Frankenstein and Igor were more scientific. "Gentlemen," a coroner once declared when a head was found in a city sewer, "this is the work of a murderer." To quality as a deputy coroner, you had to possess the following: a letter from your ward...
This is a dramatic vocabulary rooted in the operatic purity of silent-film making; Schygulla uses it to create, with each film, a new chapter in the emotional biography of the modern European woman. A Love in Germany reveals Schygulla as a superb, fearless actress and an international star ready to take Hollywood. Wake the town, tell the people. Frighten the horses, even. -By Richard Corliss
More time would be granted to First-Termer Mondale, allowing him to rest his tired troops, gather his helpers and prepare his plans. But outside events rush forward even in the final, sweaty hours of the campaign. The opportunity to begin another chapter in the life of this nation will open next Tuesday night when one man or the other raises his arms in victory. The quicker he drops campaign politics the better...
...light-from the headlamps of cars, from streetlamps and shop windows-it seemed to be a fuzzy, half-hearted sort of light, almost conspiring with the dark to lose itself in blackness. The windows of the Abbey glowed dimly like old jewels. Behind them, the choir, Dean and Chapter had recently acknowledged that they had followed too much the devices and desires of their own hearts...
...once again Talbott launches into a wholesale trashing of the Administration's approach. Apparently these Soviet advantages in the most volatile of nuclear weapons--land-based." MIR Veo ICBMs--mean nothing to Talbott after his highly intelligent opening chapter...