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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Garden is full of beautiful statues, including a classic George Washington on horseback pose near the Arlington Street end. The statuary pickings are leaner at the Common except for one Civil War scene directly across from the state House...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Byrd's Swans | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Hughes has a big smile and good looks, but ten lines into his first speech he drops the thread of Shakespearian poetry and never picks it up again. His voice maintains the same pace and tone throughout the show, except at moments of special excitement when he raises it up high in his throat in a doomed attempt to communicate wonderment. When he is banished for killing Juliet's cousin in a duel and flees to his confessor's cell, he collapses on the floor and cries; the irritating sobs continue interminably. They seem an admission of the actor...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...diet is simple and time has proved it safe," explains Tarnower. "People are willing to put up with the discipline and deprivation necessary because they know it works." The discipline is strict indeed. No alcohol, no snacks (except raw carrots and celery), no sugar, no oils. The dieter must follow, for two weeks at a time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Diet of the Hour | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...said he was satisfied with his team's play. "We have a much stronger team than we had last year," Felske said. "We've played a better match this year; last year it was all bagels and breadsticks. A number of the singles matches could have gone our way, except for some bad luck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Shut Out Netwomen; Crimson Takes One Set | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

There did not appear to be any such problems for the J.V. except for its poor start, as it came back from the scare in Philadelphia to win big, like J.V. lights are supposed to Captain and J.V. six seat Jeff Cooley felt that the crew's smooth settle was the "crucial thing...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Lights Sweep in Biglin Over Dartmouth, MIT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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