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Word: clickings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray autumn dusk outside, with just enough rain to keep the streets and sidewalks damp. As the hour approaches, radiators click on around the church. "This is typical," Chris Forrest says. "Lots of mistakes and people thinking they can't possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Blending Voices | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...pristine daughter (Fillipa Franzen); the cold-blooded family doctor (Sven Wollter); and the servant girls, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir). They're like refugees from A Dream Play, and the house exudes the acoustic sterility of an undisturbed stageset in a bombed-out theatre; the hardwood floors click too loudly, the furniture looks placed, the china is more for display than use. It's the House of Usher waiting for a match...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Brilliant Sacrifice | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...took a while for the Harvard fencing teams to click last night at MIT. Both the men's and the women's squad held slim early leads, and both faced rival rallies--but both eventually disposed of the host Engineers...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Fencers Stump MIT, Halt Engineer Rallies | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

...would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees or a green spindly iron chair with pigeons in ) the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris -- and shoot away: click-zip, left-right, up- down, frame after frame, more like a hen pecking than a formal photographer composing, an accumulation of nervous little details, splinters and shards. He would deal out the images, dozens or hundreds of them, on the studio floor and begin assembling. "There are a hundred separate looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Recomposed of Shards | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

LaRaja said the key to the game was the relentless Harvard pack, which repeatedly pushed Babson back. "Our pack totally dominated them," LaRaja said. "Things are really starting to click...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Hot Ruggers Shag Shabby Babson, 31-6; Crimson Still Undefeated in N.E. Union | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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