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Word: formative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gallagher is not the only one to advocate this change in debate format. James Roosevelt Jr. '68 has bought 30 minutes of air time on Channel 7 and is currently trying to pressure Kennedy into facing him during the prime-time slot on July...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Place for Idealism | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...That kind of theatergoer has often been intimidated by Sondheim's literacy, acidity, unpredictability and aspiration. Thus Sondheim's admirers hope that Into the Woods will at last give him a blockbuster mainstream hit. However the show fares, Sondheim is once again rejuvenating a too often tired and mindless format. And the best news for the future of the musical is that Sondheim can rightly claim that, in the title phrase of a bawdy anthem he wrote for the movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, "I Never Do Anything Twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Song and Dance with Each Show, Sondheim Redefines the Musical | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Hockey East also announced a change in its play-off format for the 1987 tourney: the league's last place team during the regular season will not get a tourney bid, with the regular season champion and runner-up receiving byes to the semi-final round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garden To Host Hockey East Play | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

...appear together next week in a three-hour special celebrating NBC's 60th anniversary. The three Tonight show hosts plus Lester (who had a pre-Tonight variety show called Broadway Open House in 1950-51) had never gathered before. "We started the most imitated show in television, the talk format," boasted a misty-eyed Paar (1957-62). Allen (1954-56) was less sentimental. "We never thought anything we were doing was a big deal at all," he recalled. "We were only concerned with the question, My God, what are we going to do tomorrow night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1986 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...real and talented person; Jo Jo Dancer is a Hollywood cliche. After this sort of rags-to-riches-and-show-biz-and-bitches movie has been done so many times before, the only thing that could make this a story worth repeating would be a gossipy, autobiographical format. As it is, the audience endures Richard Pryor's revenge without being able to cross the tenuous line between fiction and fact. This half-hearted approach earns only a half-hearted response...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

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