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Word: cliffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through strong offensive performances, the Harvard men's and women's fencing teams rewrote Jimmy Cliff last night, proving "the harder we come, the harder they fall" as each squad handily defeated its Brandeis counterpart...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Harvard Men Fence-In Brandeis, 19-8 | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

...sacrificial lovely. Snider does love her, but he also sees an exploitable innocence; she is a property that he can ride our of his world of cars and girls--into a world of faster cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...story of a 1981 Trevor collection, immediately allays any tears that Trevor's subject matter might result in dry and repetitive models. A Georgian seaside lodge on the Irish coast provides the setting for an explosive tale of suburban English couples holidaying in June, playing bridge and going for cliff walks just as they have done for years. Swapping bed as often as bridge-partners, the bonds and tensions webbing these people together is wonderfully conveyed the prejudices and biases that the characters display in their attitudes both towards each other and towards Ireland are threaded subtly beneath the first...

Author: By Mark Murray, | Title: Irish Tragedies | 11/18/1983 | See Source »

...first four Harvard finishers from Saturday's race, Andy Gerkin, Paul Gompers. Peter Jelley, and Cliff Sheehan will be returning next year to give the harriers the nucleus of a team that could improve on this season's record...

Author: By Christina D. Mungan and Benjamin R. Reder, S | Title: Women Harriers Headed for Nationals; Men Finish Up With Fifth at IC4A's | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...kill himself as well). But the words pierce to the heart of the matter as the writer-director sees it. Everyone Dorothy Stratten meets wants to exploit her in some way. Yet in this peculiar moral universe, Fosse suggests, the differences between Hefner (played with slithery menace by Cliff Robertson), Snider and the upscale moviemaker (Roger Rees) who aspires to be her ultimate Pygmalion are more a matter of style than of principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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