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Word: modeli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows, Frank's Place seems to be walking most confidently the delicate line between comedy and drama. Set in a bustling New Orleans restaurant, the series at the outset looked like a routine ensemble sitcom in the Cheers mode, but it has grown increasingly audacious and appealing. In one episode, the family of a man killed at the wheel of his truck threatens to sue the restaurant for serving him too many drinks; a white lawyer travels into the black ghetto to discover that the victim actually committed suicide. In another show, Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Not Playing It for Laughs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...just maintain a certain panic mode until you hear what happened," said Donna Bresica, a first-time candidate for School Committee. Michael Nussin, working the polls for City Council challenger Jonathan Myers, agreed. "This'll test the candiates' stress management capabilities...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Campaign Workers Lure Voters | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...Peace changes his life--and shifts the movie into a mixed mode of comedy, musical and social satire. Inspired by his heavy readings--Nietzsche, Camus, and the like--Umstetter pens a prison drama called "Weeds" and directs it in San Quentin. Weeds, the movie, is the tale of Umstetter's exploits once he's been paroled through a campaign initiated by an impressed San Francisco drama critic. Umstetter and his fellow ex-convict thespians take their show on the road...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stars and Bars | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...state of aggravation. Wiping away tears of laughter from their eyes--or sockets, as the case may be--they left to take turns guarding the copy machines. They had to make sure that no mischievous students were wasting valuable fluid by making too many copies in "dark" mode...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Money Changes Everything | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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