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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caffeine's the key, says Matthew S. Cibula '88, as the crew of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui hammered the finishing touches on the play's set of crates and wooden boxes. Lying on the floor in front of the Loeb's Mainstage, Cibula tried to explain how one can manage to coordinate a mainstage play...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: The Rise and Shine Of a Mainstage Play | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...Lewis' amendment is an attempt to gut the bill and prevent its enforcement," said William J. Hutchinson, chairman of the Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance. "It is simply an attempt to delay consideration of the bill. After it is discussed on the floor it will go back into committee for up to 45 days...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Gay Rights Bill Stalls In State Senate Fight | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...debating. It is simply the existing civil rights legislation which protects citizens from discriminatrion on the basis of sex and race expanded to include protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation," said Michael J. Barrett '70 (D--Cambridge), a Catholic state Senator who is managing the bill on the floor, yesterday...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Gay Rights Bill Stalls In State Senate Fight | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...sessions at least appeared to be free of the partisan wrangling that erupted on the House floor. There, Speaker Jim Wright rammed through a $14.4 billion deficit-reduction bill by a single vote, 206 to 205. The plan features $12 billion worth of tax increases, including a three-year extension of the 3% telephone excise tax, a shrinking of tax benefits for corporate takeovers, and limits on the amounts of home loans that are eligible for interest deductions ($1 million on mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Risks In Every Direction | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...movement, spinning, doing plies and tossing eggs, and this contrasts oddly with the way they are painted. True, Rothenberg always liked to play on contradictions between the quick, snapshot nature of her chosen image (a galloping horse, a teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented. But in these paintings this incongruity becomes extreme. None are done from life, and yet some figures have an undeniable veracity, the feeling of a life sketch that argues a lot of preliminary drawing; and an occasional awkwardness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spectral Light, Anxious Dancers | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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