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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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On that cheerful note, goodbyes are said. Olivier prepares to return to the country, his wife and his pool, as inviting as a baby's bath. There is a final thank-you to "Lord Olivier," and he utters a sound, difficult to describe but impossible to forget, somewhere between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Confessions of a Real Actor | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

It seems assured that any suggestion put forth by those reviewing the Comprehensive Plan will seem mild in comparison to the outcry which Fox generated five years ago with a proposal which people now seem to agree entirely made sense. But it also seems clear that the results of the...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Quad Squad | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

Dr. Murgaret S. McKenna '70, a former patient advocate who created the position and now works at McLain Hospital, has a more provocative suggestion doctors don't like to work at university clinics, she says, for the simple reason that the work is unchallenging compared to most full practices face...

Author: By Amy E. Schwart:, | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

Nobody ever found any. There were the usual stories of unfortunate children biting into apples and finding razor blades, but we had grown immune to these by then. Everyone knew that you didn't accept candy from strangers: everyone knew that New York's streets were dangerous, especially on October...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Paranoia | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

Malaurie does not romanticize the passing of the old ways. A people whose total energies were geared for survival no longer turns from new things that make survival easier. What the author wants is a balance that might preserve the Inuit spirit. The threat to that spirit is illustrated by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sahara of Ice | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

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