Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report found little that wasn't already suspected. What the report did do was provide evidence for the existence of suspected problems and show a willingness to tackle them. That is a step in the right direction, and the department should be commended for bringing its shortcomings to light...
...annual Take Back the Night week at Harvard can be a union of women against violence, a symbolic show of support for every person's right to control his or her own body or a call for awareness of sexual assault...
...have as a centerpiece a daytime "money wheel": a continuous half-hour cycle of business headlines, market reports, consumer news and other business-related items. In the evenings, however, the programming will range more widely. John McLaughlin, host of the syndicated McLaughlin Group, will do an hour-long talk show with such guests as Malcolm Forbes, Henry Kissinger and Phil Donahue. Dick Cavett has been signed as host of another nightly interview program; his first week's guests will include Jimmy Breslin and Linda Ellerbee. Also on the after-business-hours schedule: Smart Money, a consumer show with husband-wife...
...patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid...
...Greek, an Italian and a Jew -- the "rainbow coalition" that exists only in Hollywood musicals. Yes, the tough Italian stud (Peter Dobson) falls for the sweet Jewish girl (Jessica Steen). And, honest, when the star of her skit gets knocked unconscious, the stud takes over and saves the show. You're going out there a punkster, but you've got to come back a star...