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Word: countless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maloul writes well, even when he overwhelms one with his vivid word pictures. Fortunately Phil's down to-earth narration rescues the reader and allows for more relaxed and absorptive reading. Maloul's style parallels the theme of the book, for as the sensitive Frank is bombarded with countless images, so too is the reader, until relieved by Phil's narration...

Author: By Kate Jones, | Title: The Outback Down Under | 10/19/1984 | See Source »

...late-arriving, early exiting spikers helped the home team's cause greatly by making countless unforced errors, including missing three serves in a row at a crucial point in the final game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Crushes Spikers | 10/17/1984 | See Source »

Break dancing has been banned from certain shopping malls, sidewalks and no doubt countless living rooms as a public nuisance. But the ghetto-born dance fad, with its twirls, windmills and head spins, has shown remarkable staying power. As a result, dozens of entrepreneurs are making a fast break to cash in on its widespread popularity among teenagers by spinning off such accessories as clothing, how-to books and video games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through to Big Profits | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Hammer says that she has received countless phone calls from other secondary schools, co-ed and single-sex, expressing interest in Gilligan's work...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Putting Women Into the Equation | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

These erotic scenes, replayed in countless variations by such academic painters as France's Jean-Léon Gérôme and England's John Frederick Lewis, kept the crowds coming to the shows organized by the Academic des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. By the turn of the 20th century a host of French and English artists, and a few venturesome Americans, had been drawn by the lure of "the Orient": a term that then denoted not the Far East but the Middle East and North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lured by the Exotic East | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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