Word: overstayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its initial charms, this romper room behavior quickly loses its appeal. Even Mr. Rogers knows that there's only so much time one can spend in Make-Believe-Land. Unfortunately, the characters in Lanford Wilson's play overstay their visit...
...between 3.5 million and 6 million in 1978. A National Academy of Sciences study issued last week denounced the INS statistics as "woefully inadequate" and put the total of illegals at no more than 2 million to 4 million. These include anyone from German students who deliberately overstay their visas to Haitian boat people who scramble ashore in South Florida, but roughly 60% of the illegals are Hispanics, and about two-thirds of these are Mexicans driven by poverty and unemployment across the highly porous 2,000-mile southern frontier...
...movies at the Brattle Theater on Brattle St. on the way to the Loeb Theatre often overstay their welcome. "Diva," for example, stayed for more than three months but the films shown are definitely top-shelf foreign delights...