Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...redress all grievances, we have a new Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
Baseball's lawyers argued that Giamatti had not yet decided the case; that legal precedent was on the commissioner's side; and that Rose was merely trying for a delay through "desperate efforts to avoid facing the merits of this matter...
...last Tuesday as the country's most-wanted criminals. The next night on television, Zhou was shown being led into a police station for interrogation. The scene then shifted to the home of Zhou Yanrong, the student's sister. Dandling a baby on her lap, her husband at her side, the woman explained that after seeing the wanted notices for her brother, she contacted security officials...
...mornings, wallow in mudholes in the heat of the afternoon, and feed in the evening. It turns out that south Texas not only looks like Africa, it apparently tastes like it too. The rhinos have been thriving on a local bush called huisache (pronounced wee-satch this side of the border), a relative of the African acacia. Macho and his mate Chula chomp down about 40 lbs. of it a day. The two now live in separate pastures because on Feb. 28 Chula gave birth to their first offspring: a healthy female calf...
...calf, who according to Bentsen arrived looking more like a wrinkly little moose than a rhino, is now a 70-lb. miniature of its mother with a tiny stump of a horn sprouting from its nose. The curious youngster, who is just learning rhino etiquette, leaves its mother's side to approach the visitors on the other side of the bars. It paws the ground, huffing and snorting like a grownup pachyderm...