Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designers America has produced. Starting in the late 1920s, James labored in a fine frenzy within the airy precincts of haute couture. He believed himself to be an artist, the equal of anyone who created with paint or plaster, and he died at 72 in 1978, just like the burnt-out creator of so much contemporary myth, broke and broken, working out of a cluttered, crumbling studio at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. The show contains some 50 pieces, each a practical study in suspended line, upended gravity and undiluted elegance...
...people get burnt out on Tab but still need the caffeine, so they buy Diet Coke," said Anne M. Coyle '84, who works at a candy store in the Freshman Union...
...early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine; and Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi. These four films will be released for selective engagements in a few cities in the hope of garnering media...
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...also really burnt up about the way the thing was handled," he added, explaining that he had been under the impression he was going to New Haven to play in a team tournament...