Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muppet Movie," Dec. 24 CBS figures that a lot of kids stay home on Christmas Eve, so they're capitalizing on this opportunity to repeat this 1979 family movie hit Yes, all the Muppets are here, along with a hoard of "special guest stars" who couldn't find other employment at the time this movie was being made...
...addition to the networks, many independent stations feature a grab-bag of holiday movies and theme shows, as well as some highly entertaining visual treats. In New York, for example, a local station broadcasts, throughout Christmas Eve, films of a burning wood fire with Christmas melodies as background music...
...quite literally cannot live without it-then why put a hundred of the missiles in one spot? Does not the basing plan exacerbate the problem it is supposed to solve, which is the vulnerability of American missiles to a Soviet preemptive first strike? Asked this question on the eve of the President's speech, an Administration official charged with helping to sell the program shrugged his shoulders and conceded that there was "something counterintuitive" about the concept. That is a fancy way of saying it defies common sense. Many experts suspect it does not make scientific sense either...
Although the new threats, Pisar stresses. Will not be of the same form as the Holocaust, they could be equally extreme. "I have lived through a pilot project for the destruction of humanity." Pisar says, "a death rattle of the species on the eve if the nuclear age. To me the nuclear arms race is a kind of specter of a planetary gas chamber...
...game-show magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...