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