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Word: arched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without the responsibility." It is a foppish wit that is very conscious of taste, class and sexual pre dilections, but Lebowitz herself remains an elusive target. Her easy cynicism and airy misanthropy have no fixed center, and though many of her riffs are spontaneously funny, too many others are arch and heavy with intention. In the end, Metropolitan Life seems like one long game show - What's My One-Liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wits and Funny Persons | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...beginning of the play and in between scenes, the proscenium arch lights up, and downstage left a character appears to tell a story about Scottie. It is this theater, "tonight," and we are in the audience "to pay tribute to Scottie Templeton," who is celebrating his 51st birthday and has just emerged from successful cancer treatments in the hospital. At first these interludes seem irritating and gratuitous, as though Slade were trying to disguise a one-set, chronologically ordered comedy by Pirandello-ing it up a bit. But afterwards, you can appreciate how these anecdotes should have worked: this...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson's next test will be Saturday against arch-rival Brown. Scoring Summary Goals Assists Points Steven Martin 5 4 9 Mike Faught 5 1 6 Pete Predun 0 4 4 Hank Leopold 1 1 2 Jim Ossyra 2 0 2 Bill Forbush 2 0 2 Jamie Egasti 1 0 1 Christ Doherty 1 0 1 Frank Prezioso...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Stun Eighth-Ranked Penn, 17-4 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...This makes amends for all the games we've lost," Princeton coach Pete Carril said after the game. Of course, the Tiger win insured arch-rival Penn of the title, as the two squads have each won the Ivy crown seven times in the last 15 years. "I wanted Columbia over Penn but how can you blow a game to see another team win?" Carril asked...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Ivy's Hoop Escapades End | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...very next bout, Debbie Sze fell to one of her personal arch-rivals Michelle Prettyman. Ahead 4-3, Prettyman gained the final touch on a lange, as Sze missed the attempted parry...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Stabs MIT, 9-7 | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

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