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Word: zoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Accused, screenwriter Tom Topor and director Jonathan Kaplan imagine a worst-case scenario that poses all of these questions and plays them out in a moral twilight zone where ambiguity gives way to atrocity. The movie boasts a daring, acute performance by Jodie Foster as Sarah, the coarse-mouthed waitress with the SXY SADI license plate, who can fist her face into a pugnacious sulk or vamp persuasively enough to steam your specs. In the process, The Accused has defied Hollywood odds to become an autumn hit, earning $18 million in its first 24 days of release. It has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...percentage was much higher and we did just fine growing our way out of the problem -- World War II sent the ratio of debt up to 127% of GNP -- so don't believe the people who tell you we're doomed. But we're nonetheless well into the discomfort zone. We've got to whittle away gradually at the ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Modest Proposal | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...pounds the ground. He thrusts a big bone into the slave's hands as though it were an Oscar and tells him to "thank the Academy." As Martin feigns death, Williams hovers over him, murmuring the pet name "Didi, Didi," then segues into the theme from The Twilight Zone. Martin is never so outrageous, but his familiar cool-guy strut and laid-back vocalisms keep him from inhabiting his character. Irwin is grayly competent as Lucky. The only really satisfying performance is Abraham's. Hugely self-satisfied in the first act, blind and pathetic in the second, he steals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Clowning Around with a Classic WAITING FOR GODOT | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Destiny drove Champi down to the eight-yd line, where the QB hit Gatto in the right corner of the end zone for the touchdown which brought Harvard within two points as time...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: 'Twas 20 Years Ago When Harvard Beat Yale, 29-29 | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

Champi then sent end Pete Varney into the same spot of the end zone for the two-point conversion which tied The Game and broke the hearts of the 15,000 Yale fans in attendance...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: 'Twas 20 Years Ago When Harvard Beat Yale, 29-29 | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

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