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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mature audiences will never be fooled about what is going to happen each step of the way in Natty Gann. We know Walt Disney too well to think that we will leave the movie in tears. Unlike the New England Patriots who constantly surprise intelligent people with their victories, this film reads like a supermarket counter pulp novel...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Disney What? | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

Another problem which some female PLAP members have faced is sexual harassment from inmates. Says Finkelstein, "Things happen all the time." One inmate repeatedly proposed marriage to the woman representing him. To case problems with sex harassment, PLAP had a seminar called "Sex, Lies, and Paperwork...

Author: By Elizabeth Buckley, | Title: Law Students Provide Legal Aid for Inmates | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...presently enjoying the best of her three seasons with the Crimson. The senior from Garden City, N.Y., has improved on both her field goal and free throw shooting percentages from a year ago, ranks third on the team in assists (16), and always seems to make something happen when she comes into a game...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: A Slam-Duncan Performance | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...Mallory says he wants to ditch Eileen, and I believe he means it. If he really wants to provide a new mother for Michael and if that makes for a solid loving family, I'll be glad to see it happen. Eileen certainly isn't easy to get to. I make appointments with her at the center, but she rarely shows up. She has complications of her own, and I wish we could begin to see how they impinge on her relationship with both Mallory and Michael. We call this the Center for Family Life because we believe in families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...dead bug. The squashed insect dropped into a typewriter at the Ministry of Information Retrieval; a bureaucrat typed the name Tuttle instead of Buttle; and poor apolitical Mr. Buttle, instead of the swashbuckling terrorist Tuttle, was taken away to be tortured and killed. Dear me, mistakes like this will happen in the Anglo-fascist fantasy world of Brazil. Imagine that Nazi Germany had colonized Britain after winning World War II, and you can visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Ending for a Nightmare Brazil | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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