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Word: shames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECENT years, Mainstage shows have gotten bigger and bigger--bigger casts, bigger sets, bigger statements on the meaning of life--but not better in quality. Director Peter Sagal's hilarious version of Moliere's School for Wives is a simple, unassuming production that puts recent Mainstage shows to shame...

Author: By Michael D. Shin, | Title: The School for Wives | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

Younger Magadanians seem more interested in their present and future careers than the area's sordid past. "That was a sad time, and we feel shame for it," said Galina Fedchenko, a reporter for the regional newspaper Magadanskaya Pravda. "But we don't talk about it very much. It's far in the past." She paused, and added with perhaps more confidence than justified by history, "We know it can never happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Gateway to the Gulag | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Judith R. Barish '88, a member of the AIDS Benefit Committee (ABC) says she is skeptical about Persephone's approach after the first party. "There are good ways to raise money and bad ways to raise money. It's a shame they have to pollute it with elitism," Barish says...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: From Condoms to Cancer: Students Raise Funds | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...shame that Friedan clouded a very powerful--though common--argument against the judge's decision in silly feminist propaganda. What's sperm got to do with it? A whole lot, if my high school health teacher was right. But let's let Friedan get her misanthropic digs in. What's interesting is that this radical chic is arguing such a conservative position. So conservative in fact, that it's one she shares with the Catholic Church...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Mommie Dearest: | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...latest foreign observer to peer into the void is Salman Rushdie, author of two fantastical novels, Midnight's Children and Shame, that tell the recent history of India and Pakistan. As an Indian who grew up with his independent motherland in its infancy, and as a fabulist whose bravura acts of invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surfaces the Jaguar Smile | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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