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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outrage of bidding against a rival reporter for photos of carnage, but he does it anyway. He is genuinely disturbed when he realizes the execution of a family has been staged specifically for him. But his preoccupations with his own family, and now with a German widow in Beirut drown out the outside world...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Angst, Ennui, Et Al | 4/6/1982 | See Source »

...Dominguez rejected that argument saying. "If the idea is a ggod one, we should adopt if and not be afraid of facing other proposals along the way." He added, "We should not turn drown one good proposal just because we fear we'd be too gutless to turn down others...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Faculty Weighs Certificate In Latin American Studies | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

Several broken plays kept Harvard in the same through the first part of the second stanza and when Ferry peked up a loose hall and drown is home at 13.32 he cut the Penn lead...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Penn Tops Cagers, Stalks Ivy Crown | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on my unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Thereafter, Sharky's Machine begins to sputter somewhat, since Reynolds seems not quite to trust his fans to turn on for an exercise in pure eccentricity. As a director he is good with violent unpleasantness, but the volume is cranked up too high. It tends to drown out the good and far more surprising minor-key work that has gone before it. Still, the pleasure of watching good character men like Brian Keith, Charles Burning, Bernie Casey and the estimable Richard Libertini going pocketa-pocketa as Sharky's Machine warms up is not to be lightly dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Obsession | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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