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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is too bad that for the only Caucasian character in the play Shin chose Jeff Karpel, who can hardly keep a straight face, cannot decide whether to deliver his lines to the audience or the other characters and has no real stage presence.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Chinatown, My Chinatown | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

It's not the first time Janowitz has failed to deliver the goods. She won much publicity and praise for her first book, Slaves of New York, and Cannibal clearly is a hastily written attempt to capitalize on her sudden fame. The success of Slaves, though, was undeserved. That book...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: A Jerk In Manhattan | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

John Rousakis, the mayor of Savannah, Ga. will deliver the opening speech this evening. Other speakers throughout the four-day conference will include: Richard Thornburgh, director of the IOP; Marc Roberts, chairman of the Massachussetts State Research Council on AIDS; and Gwen King, President Reagan's assistant for intergovernmental affairs...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Newly Elected Mayors Will Attend Four-Day IOP Training Seminar | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

Amid a Republican landslide in 1968, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor under Republican Richard Ogilvie and thus became the top Democrat in the state. In his bid to become Governor four years later, he won the endorsement of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. It was a rare miscalculation for Simon: not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Paul Simon: Some of That Old-Time Religion | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

The new laughless comedies deliver their mixed messages more deftly, if not always more successfully. Hooperman, starring John Ritter as a San Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Not Playing It for Laughs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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