Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The lobby of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel featured a curious display last week: a large butter sculpture of a donkey. The perishable sculpture, as well as complimentary airline tickets and an elaborate reception at the Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what...
But holding up what he called a handbook of principles based on the Geneva Convention, he said the contras have a strict code of conduct. One commander whom the contras found to have committed atrocities was "punished to a maximum punishment," he said.
Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns...
In Israel, a Jerusalem travel agent complains just as bitterly that "our season has been screwed." Last year tourism earned the country $1.1 billion, and Israeli tourist officials had expect ed 1986 to be another big year, with more than 500,000 Americans due to visit, vs. 433,000 last...
Maybe Alan Rudolph should just plunk himself down in front of a video console, electronically colorize some old film noir favorite of his and forget it. Instead, the writer-director keeps trying to revitalize that shadowy, romantic style of the '40s by putting a hip spin on it. This strategy...