Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOMEN are accused of acting like men, only because men have been raised to see the world and act a certain way in it. Studies show that grade school boys are eight times as likely to call out in class and twice as likely to garner a teacher's praise than female classmates...
Verba said that polling data which show that people are not attracted to either presidential candidate should mean an especially low level of voter turnout on November...
...Degas show of a lifetime opens in New York...
...complicated and sometimes elusive painter is seen with an unprecedented -- and probably never to be duplicated -- completeness in the huge show of more than 300 works being unveiled by the Metropolitan Museum this week. Never mind the crowds and souvenir selling. This retrospective superbly presents Degas as the exemplary realist, an artist who was an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study La Comedie Humaine...
...night life especially disappointing. One club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a "festival of Malthusianism." On the up side, he gives two cheers for Western civilization, "the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us." It may not be what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but neither did they envision that their liberal political philosophy would produce no-fault auto insurance and gifted wise guys like O'Rourke...