Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is simply too nice. The best comedy is always shot through with a subtle streak of cruelty: laughter inevitably claims a victim. Order is always sacrificed to chaos. But My Favorite Year positively wallows in benignity. The screwball comedies of the 30s could get away with that, but sheer niceness just isn't a cinematic virtue any longer. A recent example of this shift came last year in Victor/Victoria, in which Blake Edwards momentarily lost his customary sharpness and floundered around in a bland, sentimental limbo. Likewise, My Favorite Year contains too many lovable characters, too many cute situations...
...booters' latest victim was Cornell, which they pummeled, 6-0, Saturday morning on the soggy, slippery Business School field. The win upped the Crimson's record to 5-1-1, 2-0 in the Ivies...
...know what the economy is doing. I see it firsthand." In Montana, Congressional Candidate Howard Lyman is emphasizing rather than downplaying the fact that he had to sign over his ranch to creditors right in the middle of his campaign to unseat Ron Marlenee. "I'm a victim of Reaganomics," Lyman tells sympathetic audiences. "I'm a living example of what it can do to the small...
...each case, the red half of the contaminated capsule was discolored and slightly swollen. When opened, the capsules emitted the telltale almond odor of cyanide; the poison was present in quantities thousands of times the usual fatal dose. Says Police Chief Carl Sostak of Winfield, Ill., home of one victim: "Apparently a very sophisticated and very malicious person is at large who had to spend a lot of time and a lot of effort on this terrible plan...
...operations implants of which were performed by Veith at Montefiore), but only in the past few years, with the introduction of cyclosporine, a drug that helps prevent the rejection of foreign tissue, have patients survived more than a year. At present the only survivor besides Wilson is another paraquat victim, who had two lungs transplanted in separate operations several weeks ago in Toronto. One limiting factor for lung transplants is the lack of suitable donors. Wilson, however, was lucky. The lungs of Thomas Riso, 19, an auto-accident victim who matched Wilson in size and blood type, became available. Rise...