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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regardless of how the reported harassmentaffected the turnout, Zhao said that enoughstudents participated to show how strongly theChinese people were committed to democraticreform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students March On Capital | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...democacy was the theme of yesterday's show,Wuer Kaixi, a visiting undergraduate at Harvardand one of the founders of the democracy movement,appeared to be the star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students March On Capital | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...wanted to beat Dartmouth today to show them something before the [Heptagonal meet]," Jones said. "But in the big scheme of things, the Heps is the most important." Harvard will race in Heps on October 27 in Van Cortlandt Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Finish Short of Big Green Squad | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...watching my Rambo tapes, because it's so damn boring here." Many of those who remember Quan and his family from before the revolution think he was crazy to return, despite his roots in Taishan. "Most of my friends here thought I was on the lam when I showed up." Others thought Quan could not possibly have anything to offer. "The Chinese have an incredible superiority complex," he says. "They're backward as hell, but they still believe the world revolves around China. They take great pride in their civilization simply because it is old. It is almost impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...with his great contemporaries, Berlin wrote simple songs. Not for him the intricate rhythms and trick accents of a George Gershwin, although the strangely sinister Puttin' on the Ritz twists and turns back on itself like a stutter-stepping snake. Nor did Berlin, who wrote his own words, generally show Cole Porter's kind of cleverness, although he could put some English on a homely sentiment in a song like Lazy (1924): "I wanna peep through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would./ With a great big valise full of books to read where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: America's Master Songwriter :Irving Berlin: 1888-1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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