Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Narrated by Edwin Newman and illustrated with archival drawings and paintings, the half-hour history lessons appeal to the "same kind of people who collect National Geographic magazines and put them on their bookshelves," says Atlas' founder and president, Peter Edwards. Another small but imaginative firm, Rhino Video, has done well with compilations of old TV clips, sensational movie trailers and oddball cartoons like Bambi Meets Godzilla. Notes Rhino President Richard Foos: "There is an incredible fascination among certain people with the odd and bizarre...
Though Coming to America's emphasis on SNL-style comedy may be a step backwards for Eddie Murphy, it is still a step out of the rut, since that kind comedy works better for him than anything else he's done. Though not a work of comic genius, Coming to America is a funny, funny film that should be good enough to encourage Murphy to continue to try something different...
...favorite time, just before. I'm so calm. The work is over. You fight and you go home. Before or after, I don't respect any of them more than another. What they look like doesn't really matter. I never dwell on what's to be done or what's been done. I just don't think of stuff like that. In my heart, I know what...
...referring to horror, and a good many people do not want it done. In the regular processes of human cruelty, nobody is arguing against competition or any of the subtler forms of combat. It's just that using brains to extinguish brains seems a little direct. Developing balance to knock somebody off-balance, honing eyesight to administer shiners, marshaling memory and ingenuity and audacity and dexterity -- and coordinating all of them against themselves, and against coordination -- seems self-destructive to a society...
...Maybe, for the sake of justice, whites must experience what it means to be beaten up." The sense of sin to be expiated is never far from Smith's mind. "When I walk around the township," he says, "I can only cry, 'My God, what have we done to these people? What are generations after us going to say?' That they don't take up a stick or an iron and knock down every white man they come across is to me still a miracle...