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Word: booted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough for a cineast just to make a horror picture about a young woman who literally gives birth to her nightmares, then copulates with the beast. The film must also be an up-front metaphor for the cosmic anomie of Western civ, and, to boot, a bilious satire on the smugness of the nuclear family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Alien Nation | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...ironic of the club He argues that the Pi indifferent from other, exclusive (Harvard social clubs because, the attitude of the Pi Eta prevents the accusation of [it] being exclusive. All are welcome. "He describe the Pi as capital opportunity den of pleasure, and a cost-effective one to boot. He asks rhetorically, "Is this exclusive? How can this he said to 'foster division' when it relies on a broad base of members to proper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'All Are Welcome' | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER doesn't come quickly: It look the Allies five long years to defeat the Nazis. Senator Joe McCarthy lasted almost as long before getting the boot. Vietnam dragged on--and on--for a decade. And the Watergate crowd clung gamely to the reins of control until they were ousted three years after the investigation of their activities began. But in some places, the concept of even grudging positive change doesn't seem to exist...

Author: By Anthony J. Blinken, | Title: Constitutional Charade | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

David Rabe's war play Streamers takes place in a kind of boot camp on the border of national psychosis. Here boredom sinks into despair; high spirits become hysterics; the killer instinct can flare with switchblade speed. Set in 1965, Streamers was written soon after the 1975 fall of Sai gon, and Rabe's dialogue glows with the white heat of hindsight. His four young draftees are doomed from the start, either by their blithe ignorance of the horror to come or by their premonition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raking Up the Autumn Leavings | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

University Police Sgt Larry Fennelly said yesterday that security guards in the Yard will mark illegally parked bikes with a tag warning the owner that the bike will be immobilized with Harvard's answer to the "Denver Boot" -an additional padlock if the offense is repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Lock Up Bicycles Blocking Ramps for Disabled | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

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