Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indeed. Each Harvard freshman who lives in a Harvard dorm knows that one day, when he's sitting in his room watching Mighty Mouse, the phone will ring, and the following conversation, or one very much like it, will occur...
Once this plot is set in motion, Men and Angels seems to promise, at most, some domesticated chills: Laura and her hidden zealotry may be a menace to Anne or the children. Can the babysitter be stopped before she does something awful? In fact, violence does occur near the end, but the real focus of the novel has long since shifted elsewhere. With considerable skill and subtlety, Gordon has constructed a series of intertwined meditations questioning the nature and even the value of motherhood...
Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, thinks divorce numbers are falling because there are fewer marriages today, and Americans have begun to marry later. Wilson's report notes that most divorces occur fairly early in marriage, half within seven years, and only 10% of men and 7% of women getting divorces are over...
Some oil companies complained that the EPA ruling gives them too little time to retool their equipment to produce fuel that meets the new standards. As a result, the producers warned, temporary shortages of low-lead gas could occur...
...good Russian accent, and the cast members of The Good Doctor are not among this elite. If Goldman had dropped the Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic plausibility...