Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham concedes defeat to Democratic nominee Thompson and reiterates her pledge not to seek a post on the City Council next fall. Her supporters call for a recount, saying that they may contest Thompson's election anyway. The recount, held on November 29, confirms Thompson's victory...
...Temple, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Walker's characters recount history using Latin and Native American folk models. The central figure, Lissie, describes turning points in humankind's history as observed through one half-million years of reincarnation...
...Gilliam's picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling...
Though Rushdie denies that his convoluted novel is meant to be antireligious, its profane and satirical treatment of Islam's origins is guaranteed to offend any true Muslim. Rushdie points out that his work is fictional and the two most offensive chapters merely recount the demented dreams of one of its characters. But in the eyes of believers, both historical and religious truth have come under an unprecedented assault. Their reaction is especially harsh because Rushdie was raised a Muslim. Says Professor Georges Sabagh, director of the center for Near Eastern studies at UCLA: "He's engaged in the worst...
Thompson said that the recount was probably aprelude to an election challenge from Graham in1990...