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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until 1983, the city paid municipal employees to set up a privately owned nativity scene on the Cambridge Common--amid increasing controversy...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Holidays Revive Religous Symbols Issue | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Among the ashes at the scene were a number of beer bottles and pie tins. The front tire of one of the tractors was flat and melted onto...

Author: By Sean P. Mclaughlin, | Title: Thanksgiving Day Fire Engulfs Shed at ITT | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...remarkable feat is to make audiences believe at once in this woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she serves a dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Glamour in A Housecoat SPOILS OF WAR | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Jackie was helped into the white hearse to ride with Kennedy's body to Air Force One. Everything about the scene was small and colorless -- casket salesman, disheveled reporters, unpainted concrete, exhaust fumes, arguing police and security men, traffic grinding by on a freeway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...against sentimentality. But not until now has the studio based a cartoon musical feature on a Dickens tale. It was worth the wait. Oliver & Company is Dickens with a twist, and Disney with a treat. Turning Fagin's gang into canines, transporting them to modern Manhattan and embroidering the scene with street vendors and Tiffany dog tags, the picture makes for a luscious comic valentine to New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What The Dickens! | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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