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Word: dulles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60's. Clearly, such a short book cannot include every significant event in the University's past, but the lack of any disscussion of turmoil leaves this account of Harvard's history improbably dull and rosy...

Author: By Esther Morgo, | Title: A Super-Deluxe Brochure | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...enjoys), who owns the Villa Mozart, a trimly polished Jugendstil-designed hotel in Merano. He stirs the pasta pots for Operator Tony May, who masterminds Palio's spacious and vaguely Japanese- looking dining rooms. So far Hellrigl's esoteric offerings have been uneven. They may be as institutionally dull as his lackluster codfish with potatoes or the watery mushroom terrine or as wonderfully executed as the ricotta dumplings with truffle butter or a risotto with sweet red peppers. "It is a challenge to give Americans a taste of my style," Hellrigl says. "Some definitely do not like the food," admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Have Toque, Will Travel | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...your phone number dull, uninspiring and difficult for friends to remember? Maybe you would get more calls if you changed your lifeless digits to whiz- kid, tuff-guy or BUCKS-UP. Several local telephone companies plan as early as October to start offering personalized numbers to consumers, a service they have long made available to business customers. Taking note of the boom in vanity license plates, companies like New York Telephone believe they could entice hundreds of thousands of customers to pay extra for the numbers. Pacific Bell estimates it would impose a $10 changeover fee and a $1.50 monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones: My Number: Dial I-Am-Vain | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Twice a week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher goes before the British House of Commons to answer questions from the floor. Although the proceedings get heated at times, the opening moves of each Tuesday's Question Time are predictably dull: Thatcher lists her pending official engagements, then usually concludes, "And this evening I hope to have an audience of Her Majesty the Queen." Last week that routine statement nearly brought down the House. The opposition benches erupted in jeers, while Thatcher's Tories fired back with a defensive round of cheers for their leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Queen's Ministers | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Reaction to the fashions, shown on French TV, was mixed. Jesuit Theologian Jean Michel welcomed relief from today's "dull and uninspiring" vestments- by-catalog. But a priest at the Paris chancery office saw new evidence of the "crisis in the West." Meanwhile, an old woman entering Notre-Dame cathedral was perturbed: "Why dress up priests as circus performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Designer Vestments | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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