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Word: ghosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meals on a tray outside the door. Once, seeing three days' worth of food still sitting untouched, she anxiously opened the door to find Gene lying prostrate on the floor, weeping. He had just finished writing Long Day's Journey Into Night, the work in which he purged the ghost of his own family memories. The Lowell House production of O'Neill's masterpiece is a faithful and worthwhile rendering of that exquisite agony...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...refreshing to watch a play which has value as literature, which leaves the audience marvelling at O'Neill's ability to craft this tragedy. Each time the foghorn sounds ominously through the mist, and whenever Mrs. Tyrone wanders ghost-like through the house searching in vain for her glasses, we are reminded of the truths which must inevitably be revealed...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...that everybody did it his way. Everybody still does. Almost seven years after his death, Hitchcock's bluff majesty continues to influence and intimidate all those who would make crime pictures. The master is dead; long live the mystery film -- but in his portly shadow. He is the ghost of thrillers past and thrillers yet to come, and he haunts his successors as surely as Mother Bates kept spooking poor Norman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Last night, Howley made everyone remember Scott Fusco. After all, number 9--Fusco's old jersey--hadn't been seen on the Bright ice since Fusco graduated last year. When Howley skated in front of the home crowd, the ghost of Fusco was not far behind...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Mark My Words | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

Kathie, flirting with Santiago, idealizes him as a sexy revolutionary, while the ghost of Santiago's ex-wife, Ana, criticizes him as impotent, lazy, and generally mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BOOKS | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

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