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Word: ens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success of the evening. A.R.T. subscribers horrified at the high-tech circus of Lulu or put off by the gloomy Brechtian neon of Seven Deadly Sins earlier this year will be happy to hear that Figaro is staged straight, with period costumes by Rita Ryack. But the traditional mise-en-scene does not petrify the show. Edmunds has placed the Countess's bedroom, the courtroom, and the other havens of aristocracy underneath a patently fake proscenium, upstage; in the wings, stretching around the audience are the kitchens, dressing rooms and lofts of the servants; and most of the action, appropriately...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Trouble of Being Born | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Alexander overcame an unusual playing hazard en route to posting the team's low score for the day. A bottle of suntan lotion, attributed to the Chip Raffi collection, exploded inside his golf bag, creating a slippery situation all over his clubs and permeating the West Warwick atmosphere with an unlikely coconut fragrance...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Hold Third Place at NCAAs; URI Leads Tourney After One Round | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), conservatively attractive--"fifty but still nifty," he claims humorously--and devoted to the pursuit of the Ideal Woman, chases a lushly likely prospect out of a train and into a deserted forest miles from civilization. Turns out, she is en route to a feminist convention--and thus begins the saga of Snaporaz, a hallucinogenic journey through an amusement park gone wrong...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard softball team finally came down to earth. Having totally annhilated most of their opponents this season en route to a 7-2 record, the Crimson nine had visions of bringing an Ivy championship back from the league tournament at UPenn this weekend...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softball Squad Finishes Third at Ivies | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...satirically pious story tells how a soldier's breast-pocket Bible stopped the bullet en route to his heart. Ronald Reagan had no Bible in his jacket outside the Washington Hilton several weeks ago, but some of the world idly suspected that he may have been otherwise armored-that in some obscure way he may have been protected by his own remarkable luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Importance of Being Lucky | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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