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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the older brother adopts the alcoholism and abusiveness of the father, constantly needing "medicine" to make it through the moment and hitting his younger brother in a drunken rage. But he is not just "mean," as his younger brother describes him at one point. The teenager is looking for salvation, journeying within the city limits, searching for good...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Blood Brothers | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

What Am I Doing Here? -- Lawyer, personable, nice job, great wife, cute kid, very happily married . . . (well, reasonably happy, I mean, O.K., I'm fortyish and I don't even want to think about approaching mid-life, let alone a mid- life crisis, but still) . . . seeks . . . (no, not 'seeks,' maybe 'is willing to entertain the notion of meeting') . . . attractive woman who might want to spend a weekend over drinks, dinner and dishes. Or not. Your call. Uh, wait! Don't call -- at home or the office. Instead, write me if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...mind, which is not unlike that of a trained detective, these clues can only mean one thing: scandal. The writing on the wall was obviously a red herring; as every Encyclopedia Brown knows, there is no such thing as "grad school ethics." Thus the sequence of events must have been as follows...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Ask Not What You Can Do for the Kennedy School | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

While it is true that the Beverage Authorization Teams (BATs) which I am hiring are not responsible for preventing undergraduates from giving their drinks to others, that does not mean that the College is unaware of this possibility or is ignoring it. It is--as it has always been--the responsibiity of House Tutors to supervise parties in the Houses. Moreover. BATs will enforce a one-person/one-drink rule. Your article left the incorrect impression that there would be no effort at all to prevent this obvious possibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bartenders and Carders | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...lighting expert Nicholas I. Martin '88 says he loves the freedom the mainstage gives him to create the proper atmosphere. The Loeb's more than 100 lighting instruments "mean that you can have more color, more isolated areas, more angles...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: The Rise and Shine Of a Mainstage Play | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

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