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Word: halley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Halley, Jr. should learn how to slur. His excruciatingly enunciated diction gets very tiring play after play, and seems inappropriate for the low comic role of Costard. The same self-indulgence that drove Kilty to play Don Armado marks his performance...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

...form of meteorites that can be pried from the ground and analyzed in laboratories, comets have left no known remnants on earth; they have been studied only from afar--through telescopes. (Scientists hope to unlock more cometary secrets when Soviet, Japanese and the European Space Agency probes fly past Halley's comet in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...some 10 trillion miles from the sun. Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others crash into the sun or the planets, a fact confirmed in 1979 when a Defense Department satellite photographed a comet plunging to a fiery death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Incident At Tunguska | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...partner and I are forever running over to Hong Kong to look for more hotel space. First we beg, then we scream, then we rant and rave, and we still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet is already sold out at prices of about $3,450, depending on accommodations, even though the cruise does not begin until March of next year. To Terry Lazar, vice president of New York's Vacation Travel Concepts, the action is more than a matter of favorable exchange rates. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Traveling Dollar | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...final production of the regular season will be a fresh version of Sophocles "Oedipus Rev," to be directed by ARI cast member Ben Halley Jr. Halley terms the project "a metaphysical theatrical experienced that is rooted in the community of the human soul...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Drama Club Tries to Broaden Scope of Loeb's Ex | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

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