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Word: novelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Croatian, which still retain individual identities in the form of separate alphabets. Serbian words are written in the Cyrillic alphabet; Croatian words, in the Roman. Milorad Pavic, who is a Yugoslav poet, must be sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam) and Hebrew (Judaism...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...most of its genre. Instead of being sappy, the film exudes a combination of sadness and joy. Bombay adeptly combines the kind of lost youth that Francois Truffaut immortalized in The 400 Blows and Small Change with a search for identity like the one Rudyard Kipling chronicled in the novel...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Coming of Age in Bombay | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...expert on the 19th-century and 20th-century novel who uses feminist methodology, Boone said English Department head Robert J. Kiely informed him last Wednesday that the department had not backed...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: English Dept. Nixes Boone | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

...handsomely -- other shows have got the tony treatment on records: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (1945) and South Pacific (1949), and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956). Now, most impressive of all, comes Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Show Boat! Broadway musical? Or opera in disguise? | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...North. Instead, consider heading south for Everybody's All- American, directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Tom Rickman from Frank Deford's novel. At least you will discover that Louisianans have more fun being miserable, and accomplish it in suaver style, than Minnesotans do. This is the movie that asks, Is there life after the Sugar Bowl? Jan. 1, 1957: that's when Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid) soldered his legend to his destiny by scoring his team's winning touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part-Time All-American: FAR NORTH & EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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