Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sears -- at least, if you are an NBC fan. Along with posters, banners and in-store videos flogging the peacock network, the department-store chain and NBC have concocted a contest pegged to the fall season. Unlike the CBS game, however, you do not have to watch NBC shows to win; you just answer a few questions about them to vie for prizes like a new car or a guest appearance on an NBC show...
...other murders go undetected. Misinterpreted evidence can also lead to the innocent being punished. Even worse, people are sometimes jailed for crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges of a conspiracy and cover...
...doing? Three years ago, a White House task force on terrorism chaired by then Vice President Bush recommended limited and well-defined military retaliation in a hostage crisis if all other means failed. "((The panel)) would not approve of wanton destruction of human life . . . in order to show some muscle," said Bush in introducing the report. Armed force would be used only "where it can be surgically done...
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: DRESS CASUAL. The edgy, high-energy star of stage (Evita) and film (Yentl) thrills Broadway with a brilliantly idiosyncratic styling of ballad and show tunes...
BENJAMIN WEST: AMERICAN PAINTER AT THE ENGLISH COURT, Baltimore Museum of Art. Period pieces today, these 52 canvases show what made "the American Raphael" (1738-1820) the toast of London and the first American artist to achieve international renown. Through...