Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows that among the 10 most-watched television programs of all time, five of them are Super Bowl broadcasts. In every two-and-a-half minute set of commercials, ABC kept at least 30 seconds to itself--especially promoting its news program and the new show The Wonder Years...
...wonder, in fact, if the public quest for a candidate with a vision is really serious and sincere or simply the outcropping of an unspoken national desire to experience something emotional about the campaign as well as about the country one believes in. The failures of the Reagan Administration may have made people wary of looking at their country emotionally, and so the search for a candidate with a vision may be the people's way of asking their leaders to create emotions for them. Because of their performances on television, particularly the Marvin Kalb interviews, several of the candidates...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...
Upperclassmen viewing the scene shake their heads in wonder, for they remember freshman intramurals quite differently. Empty courts, with teams just barely making the required number of players. Teams winning by forfeits rather than skill. No fans. No jerseys. No spirit...
Rock- throwing mobs continue their frenzied attacks as bewildered security forces wonder what to do next. In the most inflammatory incident yet, police attack demonstrators on the sacred grounds of Jerusalem' s Temple Mount. -- Five Central American leaders meet in Costa Rica and give peace another chance. -- A dynasty ends with the death of Taiwan' s President Chiang Ching...