Word: shows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wild Zontar from the planet X-13 landed on Mt. Auburn St. Thursday and asked me what a "television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...
...result, the essays lose the playfulness and verge on self-importance, not self-consciousness. In all the essays, Updike makes offhand remarks that show a strong sense of his own significance, and the essays pick up this tone...
...Updike's latest book takes what is important in his life and uses it to show what is important in any life...
...demanded that certain salient details -- a basswood-and-airplane silk screen from a Manhattan apartment, for instance -- be built right into the exhibit's walls. Fortunately, the museum indulged him: the result (on display together with a handsome exhibit of Emilio Ambasz buildings) is the liveliest MOMA architectural show in years and palpable evidence that Holl, at 41, is one of the most influential younger architects in America today...
...WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer...