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Word: idealisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nadeau said the Cabot House JCR is ideal for live performances because of its large size. To make it easier for bands to play there, the house plans to install a permanent public address system by next fall so that bands will not haveto bring their own systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot House Launches Free Friday Concerts | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...

Author: By Sean C. Griffin, | Title: More than Enough | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Giant Step Into the Light | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...hear some hillbilly talking." Speech therapy costs him $45 a session, but Brooks believes it is an investment that will pay off for the rest of his life. He's been wanting to tone down his accent since high school. "J.R. Ewing or - Matlock on TV has an ideal Southern accent. It's still there, but it's not countrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...more recent safe haven for the traffickers is Honduras. Its location, only a few hours' flying time from Florida, and its many secluded airstrips make Honduras an ideal transit point. Last November a shipment of mahogany boards arriving in Florida from Honduras was packed with 8,052 lbs. of cocaine. A few days later the Honduran military attache in Colombia, Colonel William Said Speer, was linked to traffickers when Cartel Member Ochoa was arrested while driving Said's $80,000 sports car in Colombia. "The upper echelon of our military has been corrupted," charges a Honduran official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Thugs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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