Word: circa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon. A leading travel writer voyages back to her childhood for an unsentimental assessment of immigrant life and her coming of age in New York, circa...
...some American hostages; a nurse takes her patient's temperature with a long oil dip stick. With its throwaway references to E.T., Ronald Reagan, TV anchormen and movies that have not even been released yet, Airplane II might deserve a place in a time capsule of pop culture circa 1982. Pia Zadora is already in there waiting...
...T.A.D. Jones, Yale football coach, circa...
...NOTEBOOK: The future looks bright for not only the Harvard field hockey family but the Mabrey family as well. Saturday the Crimson mentor announced that she is pregnant. Look for another Mabrey on the Harvard field hockey roster circa...
...this empurpled mode, relentlessly maintained throughout the novel (her 14th), that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive...