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Word: contentions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rocky Horror is much more than just a bizarre movie. Although a flop when it premiered in 1976, Rocky Horror made a late-night comeback as the nation's ranking cult film. The film's followers, not content with memorizing the script, have devised a series of now-traditional audience responses...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

McGanney first notes that the Experimental Theater should do "experimental" plays; she would settle a complex argument by calling on the power of a name. By her logic, she will be quite content if we change the name to the Elite Theater. But I don't think changing the name would help. The name argument is clever, if specious, window dressing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ex | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...should be interesting to watch Saturday's Harvard-Dartmouth game at Bright Center. When these teams met in Hanover two weeks ago, Dartmouth was more content in getting Harvard out of its skating game by playing rough. Harvard won, however...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Poll Lot of Confusion | 12/9/1987 | See Source »

...Content: Sophomore center Malcolm Hollensteiner had a fine afternoon Saturday against St. John's, scoring 16 points and grabbing six rebounds in 17 minutes of play...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: The Art of Crushing the Weak | 12/1/1987 | See Source »

...liver, where most of the ethanol in the bloodstream is broken down. Because alcohol is so high in calories (there are 110 calories per jigger of 90-proof liquor), the liver metabolizes it instead of important nutrients, a phenomenon that can lead to severe malnutrition. The high caloric content of ethanol also causes fat to build up in the liver, one of the earliest stages of alcoholic liver disease. This is frequently followed by scarring of the liver tissue, which interferes with the organ's task of filtering toxins from the blood. The slow poisoning leads to other complications, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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