Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premiere episode, Lucifer tried to take over a convent in France. Before the overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters out of the series in possibly the screwiest manner in TV history. After being possessed by the devil, the fellow was transformed into a little boy and returned to his mother. A bit inconvenient for the family, perhaps, but in TV's world of horror...
...reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...
...have observed this phenomenon not just in the apparent abstinences of the flesh, but everywhere, and I have seen it for years. The poetry students I teach, to my enduring amazement, write rarely if ever about love, and even more rarely about sex. I am, for that matter, more likely to find in my collected stacks a poem about their difficulties with their Macintosh than with their girl- or boyfriend! Where my generation's favorite bumper sticker may have been "MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR," theirs, I am virtually convinced, will in no time be, "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE...
...scholars, drawn from colleges and universities across the country, will deliver public symposia on each play, the ART announced last week. In addition, the scholars will write articles for the ART newsletter and program notes...
...evidence was nearly incontrovertible--HDS needs to improve a great deal before we, their customers, are satisfied. Before I returned to write my investigative blockbuster a la Woodward and Bernstein, I had to ask my source one final question...