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Word: materiallize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The actors handle this difficult material skillfully; Sullivan is especially good at sustaining and timing Hallie's disturbing descent into cruel racism. The threesome falter but once, as they move toward the climax of the play. They need to take more time, to let each line sink in, and we...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: A Tribute to Fugard | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the following formula will be suitable. We will allow a few limited agreements for prepublication review, but only where the claim seems (1) to further a legitimate interest of the reviewer, and (2) to involve minor aspects of the text that do not interfere with the right of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Letter | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

THIS COMPLEX LIST of suspects may suggest the makings of a contrived prime-time melodrama, but it should be noted that P.D. James is a true mystery artiste, whose writing transcends the seeming transparency of her material. Her prose is direct, with an unmistakably British flavor. It is of little...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: A Taste for Mystery | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

Propositions that were easy to resist. In referendums around the country, voters last week expressed a kind of social laissez-faire, a tolerance for diversity, an intolerance for efforts to legislate morality. The good citizens of Green Bay, Wis., for example, refused to ban the exhibition of obscene material. Californians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notebook of Tall Winners, Big Losers, Frogs and a Bird | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

The technique, reported in last week's issue of the journal Science, is significant not so much as a demonstration of virtuoso genetic engineering, but because it will provide scientists with a valuable research tool for studying how genes go about their business. By fusing the firefly gene to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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