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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: has been around for 114 years and is real old and decrepit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

There is, for example, the decrepit state of Hemenway Gym. These protesters are not just a group of anti-administration renegades; they have a cause: they want their squash courts cleaned up. Yes, we've stooped that low. Our generation will honestly protest the sorry state of its squash courts...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Politics of Frustration | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

...think this place has been abandoned by God?" Adso asks William, and he seems to be on to something. All the monks are old and decrepit, shrinking and shrivelling. By comparison, Sean Connery looks a little too hale and handsome, and William comes off as James Bond in a habit...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Haunting Rose | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Ethereal, but Hip Fairy Tale | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...million who disembarked there, some 300,000 were deported, deemed medically or politically unfit to become Americans. Given the mass of people who passed through, though, Ellis Island's history is humane: 80% who arrived were in and out within a few hours. Yet today, roaming the decrepit, shadowy, once functional buildings, certain grim resonances are inescapable. These are Government buildings, after all, through which millions of Europeans were herded, bureaucratically categorized and judged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair of American Islands | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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