Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert, an art-show or a day planned "your...
...started things by falling from a torn place in the sky. The first man, say the Eskimos, hatched from a pea pod. The ancient Chinese venerated a giant who burst from a vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus and Pandora. As the paintings prove, each figure is not only a people's fantasy but also an illustrator's dream...
...special amnesty program, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that it had received an astonishing 1.2 million applications, four times the number expected. Normally, about 600,000 aliens come to the U.S. each year to pick crops and work on farms. To qualify for amnesty, the aliens must show they did such work for 90 days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986. So it seems that at least half the applications were phony...
...South America. Since Christians are a minority, says the Greek Catholic patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, Archbishop Loutfi Laham, they "need stabilization and peace in order to stay here." For the moment, at least, the fears of a disappearing flock appear exaggerated, judging by estimates from Israeli sources. They show that there are 103,000 Christians in Israel, including the Jerusalem area, compared with only 67,000 in 1967. During the same period, the total number of believers in the occupied West Bank has held steady at around...
...appearances were relevant, no one would suspect that the David Geffen Co. is a show-business powerhouse. It functions in a homey, two-story structure tucked between Sunset Strip's office buildings and Beverly Hills' mansions. Its owner and chief executive, the boyish Geffen, 45, often dresses for work in blue denim, wears a two-day beard and avoids any restaurant that requires a tie. Yet in an industry dominated by such giants as MCA and Gulf & Western, the Geffen Co. has become a serious contender, a factory of hits. Started in 1981 with just three employees, it pulled...