Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Owning a video store, which not long ago seemed like a can't-miss way to make a living, is getting to be as nerve-racking as sitting through a Steven Spielberg thriller. Last week videocassette retailers were in an uproar over the disorderly debut of the home-video version of Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Disgruntled shopkeepers claimed that some stores belonging to such giant chains as K mart, Wal-Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week...
...driest dust that blows," Sandburg says, quoting Mortimer Weiler, one of his favorite writers. "The best archaelogists make things stand up, make them come to life," he explains. "You have to use as many sources as you can and you try to come up with a three-dimensional version of what really went on. It's like making a pop-up picture...
...resign five years later after bad investments left him near bankruptcy. He turned to writing, and loosely based his first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, on his experience. A main character in First Among Equals, who becomes Prime Minister in the considerably altered U.S. version, also suffers severe financial reverses...
...collection of colorful Hopi Indian kachina dolls was tagged for the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The mementos form a miniature gallery of the career of the crusty, often irascible and always independent Senator from Arizona: his dedication to U.S. military strength; his lonely conservatism, which prefigured the more popular version that followed; and a 100-proof Western sensibility that was never diluted by the genteel mores of Washington...
...pump dates from 1936 and replaced an earlier version which commemorated the pump from which students had to draw their water in the 18th century. Popular legend has it that the pump's immediate predecessor was blown up by students...