Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, you can get three 22-cent stamps for the same 66 cents. You can even get a book of 20 for $4.40 or a sheet of 100 for--you guessed it--$22.00. But you have to wait in line behind 15,000 people, each waiting to mail a box of lemon twists to their grandchildren in Tacoma, Washington...
...Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting through the air on a swing, to an expressionistic version of Pushkin's Little Tragedies in both Stockholm and Bologna. But his career, however thriving, involves painful artistic detachment, akin to a nuclear scientist's working through a glove box...
...black box, bare except for a suggestion of a tenement apartment in one corner. The most conspicuous element is a red-spattered door through which someone always seems to be bursting. Among many harsh white lights that glare down on the action, the most striking is a long thin strip at the back wall that hints of someone peering in from behind. This Crime and Punishment is equally about the social injustices of the old Russia and the arrogance of the new Soviet state, and finds a continuity between them in their lack of Christian charity and love. (Lyubimov...
Cannon has been suffering from a sudden dearth of box-office hits, but that may not be its most serious problem. Critics charge that its past success may have resulted partly from questionable accounting practices, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is currently looking over Cannon's books...
...most critical deficiency is the failure of the sophisticated electronic countermeasure devices -- the "black boxes" designed to jam antiaircraft radar and missiles. So dissatisfied is the Pentagon with the equipment that it is withholding payments to the manufacturer, Eaton Corp. Shortcomings in the jamming hardware, for example, have triggered difficulties with other elements of the aircraft's computer "brain," with unforeseeable consequences. Some $104 million of the money requested for repairing the B-1B is earmarked for this software system. Last week Eaton tacitly confirmed its problems with the black box by ousting the manager of the B-1B electronics...