Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe Breathed is trying to be pathetic, to prove that he can be a subtle comedian by being obvious. Maybe he is repeating Dan Quayle jokes every week to beat us so senseless that we begin to see his deep, hidden artistic motive. He may yet prove that there is humor in bad humor. If that is his aim, he is repudiating most of his last two years of "Bloom County," and he must be a very disenchanted cartoonist indeed...
...slot-machine losses in the course of two evenings: $50. But Painton did taste one of the luxuries the casinos lavish on their best customers. With all its regular rooms occupied, Bally's Grand Casino Hotel one evening assigned her to a suite with a Jacuzzi and a TV hidden in a marble plinth. Unhappily, the upgrade did not result in a night of rest. Explains Painton: "The man in the next room was a lucky gambler who celebrated his big win by singing reggae tunes at the top of his voice." That's Atlantic City...
...European Cinema (1949-1989)," for example, brings the iron curtain to the silver screen. Taught by Film Archive Curator Vladimir K. Petric, the course will feature several American premieres, released from Eastern Europe only recently under glasnost. "It will be interesting to see how artists tried to express something hidden--in this case, between the images," Petric says...
...supposed profits of jewelry and gold-trading businesses. Martinez is described as only a middle-size fish, but he could turn out to be highly important. If he is extradited and decides to talk in return for a light sentence, he might point out where his chiefs have hidden billions of dollars in profits and investments. The U.S. and friendly nations could then seize those assets...
...some 150 American zoos in between, the troubles are not very different. The sharks eat the angelfish. The Australian hairy-nosed wombat stays in its cave, and the South American smoky jungle frog hunkers down beneath a leaf, all tantalizingly hidden from the prying eyes of the roughly 110 million Americans who go to zoos every year. Visitors often complain that as a result of all the elaborate landscaping, they cannot find the animals. But this, like almost everything else that goes wrong these days, is a signal that America's zoos are doing something very right...