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Word: crowbars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan will fall like a crowbar... awfully fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Mondale | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...with Reagan] in the next month. For one thing, I think we already see John Anderson fading. That will strengthen us because we'll then have only one opponent. The other thing is that I believe when Reagan starts to fall, he'll fall like a crowbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Mondale | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...North Hollywood parking lot, yanks it from the back seat and stabs it helter-skelter while the gods guffaw. But Sellars' production fails because it attempts too much, his ambition exceeds his grasp. Far from letting the play breathe, he beats it about the neck with a crowbar, adding abrasions and welts until he obscures his own intentions. By any interpretation, Lear should not be an interminable, mired melodrama set in a tempest of technology. Sellars' Lear is a tragedy of excess...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

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