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Word: recounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between these parades of caricatures, the players recount the ups and downs, but mostly downs, of the feminist movement. The cause is alternately vulnerable to infighting, anti-feminist women firmly entrenched sex roles, and a society which for the most part refuses to yield...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Feminist Follies | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...home, the boys are preparing an elaborate dinner, all the while chopping, mincing and braising the opposite sex as they recount their lubricious adventures. Down at the gym, the girls are working themselves into a lather on the same subject. Writer-Director Denys Arcand has worked out an amusing role reversal to enliven his intensely talkative movie about middle-aged French Canadian academics. And his actors are willing to bare their less than perfect bodies along with their less than perfect souls, thus lending credibility to their reports from the front lines of the war between the sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Little Sex, a Little Death | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying to attend high school in Little Rock, the murder of Civil Rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images Of Glory | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...this is an opportune time to recount some of the highlights from individual games in the first half of this storybook season...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Falling From the Heavens | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...Mark and Luke. To Mann, that is strong evidence that Mark's Gospel derives from the other two. In addition, where Mark and Matthew coincide, both narratives are usually very similar in substance. One of many examples, Mann notes, is the close parallel in Mark and Matthew when they recount Jesus' predictions of the fall of the Jerusalem Temple and the subsequent persecution of Christian believers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Life for an Old Dispute | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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