Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly two of every three people surveyed favor the instant replay rule being used this season in the NFL, according to a poll conducted by USA Today...
...Boesky case had an instant sobering effect on the takeover game. As the thunder of the insider-trading disclosures rose in volume, a number of big plays suddenly came to a halt. Wickes, a Santa Monica, Calif., retailing and manufacturing conglomerate headed by Sanford Sigoloff, 56, announced that it might not be able to carry out the estimated $1.7 billion acquisition of California's Lear Siegler, the aerospace and automotive-products concern. Sigoloff's bankers, spooked by the Boesky scandal, apparently balked at financing the deal...
Vincent is back. We left him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, crop- eared and dazed in Arles: "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same...
...from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
...addition, spokesmen for the lottery department have said Massachusetts offers more and different games than those in most other states, distributes its own instant game tickets and runs its own Beano department, which other lotteries generally...