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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sweeney hopes to exact his revenge on Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Wayne Johnson), by luring them to his barber chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: A Cut Above | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Kingston's high comes with a price tag--a $61,000 price tag to be exact...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Ruggers Off to Australia | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...League, Harvard once again came out in front of its early action rivals. This year Yale received 1504 early applications, and Princeton 1860, admissions officials there said. Brown administrators estimated that between 1700 and 1800 students had applied there early, although they said they did not have the exact figures available...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Early Applications Rise for Fifth Year | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

...they don't. The widow of a giant slain by Jack shows up to exact revenge and drives everyone back into the woods (mystical and eerie in Tony Straiges' design, spellbound in Richard Nelson's storybook-colored lighting). The threat she poses has been likened by some critics to nuclear war or AIDS; the rampant selfishness that soon erupts in the face of trouble is, the producers admit, meant as a subtle protest against the self-congratulatory individualism of the Reagan era. But with or without allusive implications, the story jolts its passive characters -- and spectators -- into a world where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Some Enchanted Evening INTO THE WOODS | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...years after the Titanic disaster, the exact location of the ship was unknown. It was not until 1985 that an expedition mounted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the French Institute for Research and Development of the Sea (IFREMER) found it broken into two pieces in the North Atlantic, about 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, in 12,500 ft. of water. The following year, Woods Hole Marine Geologist Robert Ballard returned to probe inside the rusting hull and take photographs. But Ballard's crew left the ship and its artifacts undisturbed and urged others to do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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