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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers seem to have forgotten the value of innuendo. This lacks of subtlety engenders a lack of surprise and coarseness in the film. One emerges from the theater benumbed by the blatancy of the script and by the ordeal of having sat through what has seemed like a thousand hours of Solid Gold...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Ever See a Priest Dance? | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...huge turning point in Lampoon history. Suddenly we had hundreds of thousands of readers rather than several thousand." Cerl says, adding that the club received national media exposure for the parodies...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kraminick, | Title: A 75-Year-Old Joke | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

...waiting lists have been there for years and are being placed at a rate of less than one hundred a year. City employees with the Community Development Department say an additional 4000 units will be needed by the end of the century. If current trends continue, only about one thousand will be built. The end result, they say, is that those who can afford to pay the inflated will find apartments and the lower income groups will be forced to leave unless the city steps...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Plan to Increase to Housing Stock Draws Opposition | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...should crown Ronald Reagan king. It is rather late to make America a monarchy true, but this coronation will simply recognize a falt accompli: Ronald Reagan has become our royal pet. What a magnificent image he projects! Thousand, perhaps millions revere him. Even his enemies call him the Great Communicator. As long as he is fed fine speeches by the tele-prompter and--with the right lights--looks bracingly American, no one cares if he rides horses when he should be working, or is fed lines by Nancy at press conferences. In all honesty, he would be a great ruler...

Author: By John B. Waumbk, | Title: Birthday Wishes | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered the airlift cut off. That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives already in Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan Threatened with Disaster | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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