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Word: lostness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild Zontar from the planet X-13 landed on Mt. Auburn St. Thursday and asked me what a "television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...Having lost the first game of the best-of-three series Friday, the Saints (29-7) were eliminated from the NCAA playoffs. The Badgers (25-14-5) will play Minnesota in quarterfinal action beginning this Friday in Minneapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friars, B.C., Lakers Superior | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...guess is that Bellow made a poor attempt at the latter. His plot is so weak and the book's structure so seemingly arbitrary that whenever a theme--usually Clara and Teddy's love--is introduced, it is lost in the confusion...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: No Nobels For New Bellow Paperback Novella | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...book opens in his hometown--Shillington, Pennsylvania--with Updike walking through the streets waiting for lost luggage and reminiscing. He introduces events and people from his childhood, cleverly returning to them throughout the work...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffleton, | Title: Updike's Memoirs Take Life Seriously | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...past, it was easy to magnify the great moments of baseball and simply ignore or cover up the lost idealism. Today, however...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Some Thoughts on the Off-Season | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

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