Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure limits the length of time landlords are allowed to keep units vacant for rehabilitation purposes. If adopted, it would force Harvard to quickly refurbish the long-vacant Craigie Arms apartments--or else risk losing it to the city through eminent domain...
...troupe's performances are a spectacle for the eye and a challenge to the mind. But brilliant as they frequently are, they are more Mnouchkine than Shakespeare, and in their excessive length-Henry IV is more than five hours-seem to be testing the audience's endurance as much as its intelligence. Nevertheless, what Mnouchkine and her company have conceived is odd, provoking, and just what Festival Director Robert Fitzpatrick hoped for when he chose the festival's dramatic presentations. "Usually people come out of the theater in Los Angeles, get in their cars and go home...
Over the years, changes in the column have occurred. There has been a significant drop in the coverage of blue-blooded polo players and yacht skippers; such new categories as arrests, court cases and resignations have been added. The column's length, however, has remained about the same, as have the extreme compression of the form and the sometimes ingenious portmanteau descriptives. Dinah Shore was once referred to as a "scorch singer," Silent Film Comic Harry Langdon as a "deadpantomimer," and Mickey Rooney as a "Hardy family perennial." No longer in use are the TIME-coined neologisms that once...
...next day the summit leaders scrutinized the seven paragraphs of the values statement for a full hour and 15 minutes. The socialist French and the conservative British, for example, debated at length over a draft statement that said political and economic freedom are fundamentally interdependent...
...pain signal from the stubbing of the toe travels as an electrochemical impulse along the length of the nerve to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, a region that runs the length of the spine and receives signals from all over the body. In a tall person, the distance from toe to dorsal horn may be more than one meter, and it can take about two seconds for the message to arrive. From there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch...