Word: showings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rare show of unanimity last night, the City Council passed a small tax increase for fiscal year 1991 which will levy $8.5 billion in new revenue on the city...
...viewers still hung up on innovation, hope rests mainly on those singing crime fighters in Bochco's Cop Rock. That's a heavy burden for a quirky series that will probably alienate as many people as it will attract. If the show catches on, however, even wackier concoctions could be on the way. A rap-music Western, perhaps? The Flash moves into Knots Landing? An animated version of 60 Minutes? No telling what the networks might try next season. Or how disappointed we might be once...
...first show in 50 years devoted to one of the world's most revered painters casts doubt on the commitment of museums to large-scale, traveling retrospectives...
...years, California's motor vehicles department has issued aptly named vanity license plates to 1.1 million drivers who feel the need to show off their initials, spouse's name and favorite baseball teams to fellow travelers. While the state has always cast a cold eye toward entries that use nasty ethnic or sexual terms, more than 300 tags with variations of the words dago and wop slipped through. Responding to complaints from the Sons of Italy organization, California has issued an unprecedented recall of dicey plates that sport such titles as DUMDAGO, 14KWOP, DAGOGOD and TOPWOP. Some drivers were allowed...
...think there's anything particularly surprising about the level of rudeness in New York. A lot of it is just show. New York has been portrayed in so many books and movies and stand-up acts that the stock characters know how to behave badly. They've all read their press clippings. The Jewish deli waiter knows what to say to an out-of-towner who asks if he could get a pastrami sandwich ("When I'm ready, I'll get" or "Listen, the pastrami here I wouldn't wish on Arafat"). The Irish cop knows how to act like...