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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claims that the show is about America, not about the Soviet Union. "As a writer [Wrye] set out to write a fiction. It could just as well have been about lizards, except CBS did it already--it was called "V," said Butler...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Back in the U.S.S.A. | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...PLAY is far from perfect. There are long stretches of dialogue where Ribman replaces invention with swatches of poetic mish-mash; and there is one character, a Mrs. Karras, who cannot have any other reason for existing except to provide a contracted actress with a job for the evening. And in a few instances Serban gives in to the urge to be maddeningly and incongruously ambiguous, as when he has two characters enter from a glowing portal set in a huge tapestry depicting a boar hunt. You think of the Juniper Tree rhinoceri and shake your head...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...thought Alexander Pope was one of those Catholic religious chiefs. I am furious to discover that in order to pass I might actually have to do some work. When the section leader asks for questions, I inquire about the extension policy. I am otherwise very quiet in class except for when work is assigned--then I roll my eyes and make a noise that I create by puffing my cheeks, moving my jaw forward, and blowing air up at my forehead...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...Rowan. But before we ask what he is doing in such bookish company, it should be noted that he put in his time as a comedy writer, and that he knocks out a sharper, shrewder letter than one would ever expect from a former headliner on the Vegas strip (except for Noel Coward, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Couple A FRIENDSHIP: Rowan and MacDonald | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...track Catharine down? The guys at the office, with their C.P.A. faces and helpful hands, share a big-brotherly lech for the hardest-working gal in law biz. But Alex has no emotional life, no obsession but her work. When she discovers that Catharine has the same fixation -- except that her work is murder for profit -- Alex finds a freer, more dangerous part of herself. Could she become her own evil twin? Catharine would like the world to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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