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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson was forced into ten minutes of some of the hardest end-to-end action it's seen all season. With 3:27 remaining on the clock, it seemed Harvard had pulled out the win, when Dianne Hurley banged in Vicki Palmer's centering pass for her 20th goal of the year...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Crimson Wins, 4-3; Nips Green in OT | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION's assault on the 20th century continued last week, and its target was a big one: the federal government's traditional commitment to defending civil rights. Reagan supported legislation approved by the Senate would severely limit the judiciary's authority to prescribe busing as a cure for school segregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Hamstring The Courts | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much." 20th century proverb...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Houses Divided | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

These were woven around a sense of his own modernity as an American living in the mid-20th century, the heir but not the colonized admirer of Picasso and Miró. It seems now that Pollock was eager to wind so many elements together in his work, not out of some empty eclecticism (which is what our "expressionists" give us today) but in the belief that cultural synthesis might redeem us all. How can one follow this show, from its first choked and turbulent exercises, through the grapplings with chosen masters (Picasso, Masson, Miró, Orozco) in the "totemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An American Legend in Paris | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...ugly death too often intersect. The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody as much of the 20th century American male-sexy, psychotic, desperate, heroic-as any movie star today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grubby Hero | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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