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Word: blur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts, and the what-ifs will make us remember. As they should. But through it all, we wonder: why is it that this accident that took seven lives will last in our memories, while the plane crashes and the earthquakes and the mudslides of the last year seem to blur together, faceless thousands of fatalities already forgotten...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: A Human Tragedy | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

...wonders whether there are any real limitations, whether fantasy sometimes infringes a bit much on reality. Perhaps even the owners sometimes allow this distinction to blur. Says Rudolf: "At least two or three times a month someone will take his clothes off on a platform and maybe jerk off. But I'm not going to interrupt an act in the middle. It's art on stage. And that's untouchable...

Author: By Preston W. Brooks and Michael C.D. Okwu, S | Title: Art and Dance in New York | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...more than eleven months, he was blindfolded when in the presence of his captors. They had taken his glasses, so the view from his window was mostly a blur. He left his room on the top floor of a two-story apartment house only to visit a bathroom next door, always under the eyes of armed guards. At night he was chained either to a radiator or a wall. He knew only that he was somewhere in the Middle East and wondered if he would leave the building alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...WOMEN of the group blur together in this Jazzy frenzy, each one more than competent," yet individually indistinguishable from the others. This lack of characterization is just as much the fault of the script as it as it is of the choreography. The only two actors with distinct roles are the leaders of the group Scott Clough) and M.chact (Don Franklin). Clough responsibility seems to be as the movie's romantic interest. This he fulfills by coasting through on its good looks. Franklin, the team's creative choreographic genius, is the most thrilling dancer of the movie. Tall and lean...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Ever See a Priest Dance? | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...here begins a series of stories within stories, which involve fierce battles heroic quests heartrending tragedies and glorious unions. The surreal elements in the story blur the distinction between the more realistic and fantastic stories within the larger framework...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: Mixed Nuts... On The Stage... And On The Shelf | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

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