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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Caine and Maggie Smith have never worked with each other be fore, but in the remaining subplot they make a perfect match. Smith gives her best screen performance ever in the role of a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who arrives in Beverly Hills for Oscar night. Alternately buoyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

She cannot quite escape her galumphing post-adolescent self, though it must be added that the intimacy of a small off-Broadway house and an adaptation that stresses the familiar agonies of growing up at the expense of Anne Frank's singularity do not help her. Neither does Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Family Affair | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

A good cartoon book is an oblong entirely surrounded by laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Having long concentrated on northerly climes, scientists know little more about the monsoon than did the old Arab traders who named the awesome wind mausam, or season. In fact there are not one but two monsoons every year. Rolling off the tropical seas from the southwest, the sodden summer winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mighty Monsoon | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

In both games, it was clear that the Harvard team was dragging. Against the talented Quakers, the Crimson started off their return to Ivy competition on the wrong foot. An experienced, slick Penn machine totally dominated Harvard, running the Crimson man-to-man defense ragged.

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Cagers Drop Pair To Penn, Princeton | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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