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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern art to the comic pages...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...Outland" does not even integrate humor and surrealism as well as G.B. Trudeau's "Doonesbury." Breathed's "Bloom County," though funny in its commentary on 1980s culture, was basically "Doonesbury" with funny animals. By the looks of "Outland," Breathed is still playing in Trudeau's shadow. If you want artistic adventurism in the comic pages, look to Trudeau's talking cigarette or his personification of Old Man History. Or look to Zippy the Pinhead. Or look to Life In Hell. Or even to Calvin and Hobbes...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

What further evidence or impulse could the USSR possibly need? The Poles know, as the Soviets must, that fifty years doesn't make a confession stale or irrelevant. Not irrelevant to the windows of the dead officers. Not to Solidarity, nor even to the Polish communist party, both of which lost potential leaders at Katyn...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: An Unhappy Anniversary | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Perspective business manager John A. Felitti '91 said, "even people who would normally read the publication won't if they have to pick it up at the dining hall and lug it back to their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...Corporation member Henry Rosovsky was more than a little surprised to find a team of reporters waiting for him at Logan Airport as he stepped off the 9:30 New York shuttle one night last week. But Rosovsky was not ruffled for long--he answered their questions, and even offered the subway-bound duo a free cab ride home. Too bad he was heading to Newton, and not Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

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