Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle over a controversial ballot referendum authorizing the city to sell rent-controlled housing to tenants took a bitter turn last week as opponents of the proposition accused supporters of deceiving voters once again...
...alone in my office, I would look at some routine papers and sometimes turn on the TV set during my one-hour lunch. Mostly I'd watch All My Children, sometimes something else. Occasionally I would look at some important news events...
...CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
...Growing up in south Georgia, he loved to fish, hunt and play baseball. But all that ended in 1985, when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a Georgia court for permission to turn off the ventilator that has been keeping him alive. As the former civil engineer testified in an emotional bedside hearing last month, he woke up every morning "fearful of each new day. There is nothing I have found or can think of that I really enjoy or that has helped...
Moviemakers are among the loudest complainers. "Commercials cheapen the medium and put the audience in a bad mood before they see the film," says director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams), expressing the overwhelming reaction among producers and directors. A majority of theater owners still agree, refusing to turn their screens into billboards. "Our experience with commercials was very negative," says Gregory Rutkowski, a vice president of AMC Entertainment, which owns 1,700 screens across the country. "We tested them several times, and our customers told us that they won't stand for them. You can't underestimate the intelligence...