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Word: derelict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justice's bum epitomizes the futility prevalent throughout The Caretaker Justice portrays a derelict who seems emasculated in the brutal world. Her filthiness complements her undeveloped personality and her selfishness seems ill suited to her poverty-stricken position in society...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Bummed | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

...city's 46 building inspectors, among them two who had overseen the Hyatt Regency project, discovered that the inspectors were routinely falsifying work logs, more often than not spending their working hours bar hopping and merely driving by construction sites. One of the inspectors the reporters found derelict was the city's chief watchdog at a new hotel complex under construction downtown. One January day, the inspector reported to superiors that he had spent seven hours tramping around a dozen building sites, but the Star's investigators found that instead he had made just two quick official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out to Lunch | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Despite these numerable successes, Regan does have doubts at times McNulty claims that "his two worst fears are marring the wrong woman and having derelict children." But Regan says he has learned over the years that "the team experience is the most valuable thing--even though you sometimes have to make time for it by sacrificing something else, it's always worth...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Andy Regan | 11/18/1982 | See Source »

...back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting her gaudiest remnants on fire sale, seems so different from Warsaw. But the enforced meanness of its spirit makes the displaced Poles feel almost at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Polish Yoke | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...spread over the entire store. Soon the notoriety of Audrey Jr. brings the little shop more business than it can handle. But there is a catch in this Faustian bargain: Seymour must oblige the plant's noisy demands to "Feed me!" by offering it the bodies of a derelict, a prostitute and a sadistic dentist. Will Seymour and Audrey consummate their love? Will Audrey Jr. devour them both? Will this outre material make for a good musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: When Trash Is a Treasure | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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