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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literature." But Harvard's Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist, says that Burt's work with twins "is the only large study which is methodologically correct, so its loss is no trivial problem for the heritability people. It is also not nice for them to have this mess in their backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Taint of Scholarly Fraud | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...also a mess for the entire field of psychology, which is still struggling to be taken seriously as a rigorous science. When a leader in the field is shown to be either a fraud or spectacularly inept, it is psychology's loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Taint of Scholarly Fraud | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...true. The news is a twisted mess, and it's not always easy to get to the bottom of it. (But you can do it.) Putting out a newspaper means more than rewriting press releases. Come to The Crimson and we'll show...

Author: By Mark Twain, | Title: So you want to be a reporter | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...flashbacks end and the dawn breaks on the caper that began the film, we see the dark rings under Belmondo's eyes and face the ugly mess of burglary for the first time in broad daylight. The whole business is not such a lark after all; Belmondo doesn't feel very sexy. Not Bujold, we now understand, not Belmondo's forged inheritance, not even a socio-economic destiny can satisfy this man's soul. Only his crowbar. The overall conception may strike us as weak, but we can now account for Malle's depressed editing. So if you feel that...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Robbed of Illusions | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

Faced with this abysmal mess, the actors descent uncomfortably into selfconscious farce; they begin to clown in the worst sense of the word. Still, two of the actors deserve praise for fine performanced: David Zucker (Alceste) for somehow convincing us that, despite it all, he is an extraordinarily talented actor and Charles Stransky (Philinte), for maintaining his dignity while the rest of the cast grunts and mugs their way to begrudgingly dutiful applause...

Author: By R. E. Liebmann, | Title: Two Instances of Misguided Moliere | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

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