Word: reappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animated series The Critic, acclaimed by reviewers but a ratings disappointment, has been picked up by Fox. After "creative changes," the show will reappear at midseason...
...marksman, he can scale an ordinary playing card across the stage with such force that it pierces a watermelon, and can rocket a card to decapitate a plastic duck. He can make a card rise from the deck as if by levitation, or tear one up and make it reappear whole. In Jay's supple hands, what is commonly known as a card trick is something approaching art. To watch him work a deck is to see him write haiku in the air, four times a week and three times on weekends...
...epic vulgarity. The revival that opened on Broadway last week stars a sphinx somewhat shinier and more purple than the original, plus smaller versions of the pyramids and New York City's Chrysler Building. There's one lively visual joke: after a famine, the sheep Joseph's family tended reappear as skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display. That is just as well because the rest of his talents range from innocuous to boring. He is a major star if, and only if, you watch the soap...
...professors disagreed that funding suchenormous projects as the supercollider preventssmaller scale research projects from receivingmoney. They suggested that even if the projectwere killed, the funds would not reappear insmaller projects...
...largely symbolic moves in June further helped Clinton reappear on TV in a favorable light. Addressing a meeting of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, Clinton denounced "racist" remarks by rap singer Sister Souljah, who had been on a panel the day before (the remarks, which appeared to advocate killing whites, had actually been made in an interview somewhat earlier). Jackson, who had not been informed of what Clinton intended to say, was furious; he decried it as a "Machiavellian" move intended to appeal to conservative whites. The strategic appraisal, though not the overheated rhetoric, was sound. Clinton was in fact...