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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then one of our guys got a pair of goals. So in anticipation of a third, a box of painter's caps made their way to Section...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: A Fan's Gear: Octopiand Tennis Balls | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...exhibition, which will remain in Boston through January 3, 1988, can only be viewed by reserving a ticket through TICKETRON or the museum's Wyeth box office. Tickets are $6, $4 for senior citizens and children ages 6-16. Museum hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MFA Exhibits Helgas; 107 Wyeth Paintings | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

...were accurately reporting the changes in her own life, she would admit that she no longer has to count the crumbs in cracker-box suburbia. If state-fair-quality dust balls grow anywhere in her snazzy Arizona rancho, it is in the box with those twelve honorary doctorates. Maybe she could do a column on rising to accept her appointment to the President's Advisory Committee for Women, only to feel the elastic turn coward and head south in her . . . nah. Bombeck knows what she is doing, and she honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 26, 1987 | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...artwork on the cereal box was meant to entertain breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PACKAGING: Taking Offense At Breakfast | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Cynics will find some of the play's more overt symbolic actions silly. Jake opens a box of his father's ashes and blows. An American flag somehow finds itself draped like a blanket around Jake's shoulder's and later stuffed like a bridle into his mouth or tied like an old rag around Mike's rifle barrel. But these tend to be balanced by moments in which the play takes itself less seriously, as when Lorraine says of Beth and Jake, "A woman who lives with a man like that deserves to be killed," or when Baylor rhapsodizes...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Sam Enchanted Evening | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

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