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Word: boringness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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I suppose it's not the planners fault. From my experience, any event in the Union is doomed to failure. Which the "Reunion at the Union" was. The nominal purpose of Senior Events is for the seniors to get together for their last fling and have a great time before...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

To help children cope with the demands of a changing society, many teachers are encouraging a spirit of inquiry. Some ninth- and tenth-graders are choosing their own elective courses. Rote learning, long the mainstay of education for the 42 million students in the nation's 130,000 schools, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Restructuring the 3 R's | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Stipe, the band's front man and most prominent idiosyncrat, writes and performs as if he and irony were locked in a perpetual thumb wrassling match. Onstage, he will show up in an organza suit designed by Adelle Lutz, which, turning transparent under the stage lights, is obviously meant to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreaming At The Wheel | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

The band's history may be pedestrian: Buck and Stipe met in the Athens record store where Buck worked; Berry and Mills, high school friends from Macon, Ga., fell in with the other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreaming At The Wheel | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Someone knock out Mike Tyson really soon. Boxing's getting too boring.

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Rose Doesn't Smell So Sweet | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

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