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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Approximately 3700 Chinese students--some 100 from Harvard among them--marched through Washington yesterday to show their support for democracy in their homeland on the 40th anniversary of Communist rule...

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

...Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...only is Breathed recycling the same punchline every week, he apparently intends to depict the same event over and over. The plot of every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...motivate them and show them that college is a viable alternative," Jackson said. "We try to dispell the myth that college is an ivory tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...final few scenes of the movie, which bring together Emmett, Samantha and her grandmother at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. are undeniably moving. They show by their contrast with the rest of In Country exactly how fine a film was lost in the production of this motion picture...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: In Country: Out of Synch | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

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