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Word: minimall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenhorns into the Heart of Borneo | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

On democracy: We are convinced we have inaugurated an era of real democracy in Argentina. We don't think of it so much as a system of government as a philosophy of life. Of course, there are still those who are nostalgic for the old days. In the end, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Is Still Great Risk | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

If you're a senior in high school and you're a girl, College Week--an annual pilgrimage of sun-starved New England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Springtime in Bermuda | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

"The CIVIL warS" is indeed a challenging work, but its challenge is not intellectual; the inherent intellectual content is, by design, minimal The challenge, rather, is for the audience to suspend its accustomed intellectual response to drama, to treat the text more as music than as literature, and to respond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Response | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Marceau plays both types of role with minimal theatrical trappings: his only accessories are music, which includes both recognizable classical pieces and simple recordings of nose; and lights, which either spotlight his antics or swirl around him to create confusion. In most of the skits, however, Marceau works solo on...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingston, | Title: Miming His Own Business | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

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