Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer in each case: London. As a result, the city's ever thriving stage scene has hit its high point of the past few years. The leading trio of shows is better than anything -- revival, new musical or new play -- offered in New York City this past season, and London's other offerings far exceed Broadway's current roster in both quality and quantity. More shows are running in the West End this week than appeared on Broadway during the entire past season...
This is comic-book psychology in its highest form, and it seems pretty silly in a two-hour-plus movie. The idea of a twisted, tortured superhero who feels driven by his own past to fight crime is perfectly fine. And the idea of a deranged psychotic trickster who mirrors the the hero's split personality is equally intriguing...
...Oxford University poet--a position held in the past by such luminaries as C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden--Heaney will give three lectures a year, judge several undergraduate poetry competitions and deliver two orations at Oxford's degree-granting ceremonies, said Ann Lansdale, Oxford's communications director...
...seemed then that the world would never run out of rhinos. "They were everywhere," Bentsen recalls of his first African safari. "They would charge the vehicles. One even walked through camp." These days, a rhino is a rare sight in the African wilderness. In the past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into dagger handles or ground into folk medicines...
...fuss, SDI seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...