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Word: midasized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The man with the Midas touch arrived on the Dayton campus in the fall of 1977 to take over a football program that had not had a winning season since man had touched lunar turf. That first year, the team went 8-3 Then 9-2-1 Then 8-2...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Carter Country | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

With this month's opening of Cate in New York, Webber now has three shows on Broadway (Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcont is the third). Each rolls onstage to packed houses, each rolls off leaving a wealthier producer. Perhaps the Harvard Corporation could convince Midas-touch Webber to compose...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Glamor Girl | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

Vitti and Branciaroli, two handsome and appealing actors, follow Antonioni's cue. There is little passion in their voices, even when the queen and Sebastian over come their initial distrust and become lovers to the death. No surprise here: Antonioni is the man who made aleatory music out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raise the Colors | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

We are all Sisyphus and we are all Midas, pushing a rock of gold west to California, knowing it will never cross the continental divide, knowing it will chase us down the mountain, knowing it will crush us with the weight of a shimy dime falling from the top of...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

The save was engineered by the $750 million John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, set up by the legendary Chicago insurance and real estate Midas before his death in 1978. The MacArthur group will pay the purchase price, reportedly about $250,000, to the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Harper's Reborn | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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