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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is hardly the stuff of which box-office triumphs are made. In their search for financing, the producers heard a familiar show-business refrain: "Not mainstream enough" or "Not youth-oriented enough." Because of the fragile state of Huston's health, insurance companies would underwrite the film only on the condition that his friend Director Karel Reisz stand by. The all-Irish cast -- including Donal McCann (as Gabriel), Donal Donnelly and Dan O'Herlihy -- was drawn largely from Dublin's famed Abbey and Gate theaters, but it had no star power in Hollywood's terms. All studios, major, minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Statistically, MacDonald has been even more valuable to the Crimson this season than Fusco was last year (SEE BOX...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Will It Be a Victory Garden? | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...missing ballot box from last spring's Columbia College Student Council elections has been found, but those involved have little hope that the find will shed any more light on the controversy surrounding recent accusations of ballot box-stuffing and miscounting, The Columbia Spectator reported last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...ballot box may not be complete, since some ballots were removed for recounting, and it is unclear whether the box contains the computer sheet voters must sign to ensure that students vote only once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...decision had been reached through the usual channels. A structured life is a box, if you think about it (as architects like Michel Couvreux certainly do, drafting refinements left and right). On land, you can remove as many as five of a box's six panels by shedding all structure and discipline; nothing to either side, nothing above or behind, or, more important, nothing blocking the path ahead. On water, even the sixth panel -- solid earth underfoot -- is gone. Michel, savoring these selected uncertainties, asked Janis to name their boat. She reached into her past and chose a surfing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Everyman's Dream | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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