Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen did try-eight times, from Play It Again Sam to Manhattan-to the kind of crescendoing acclaim that might sound monotonous to an ambitious artist. Like Chaplin after The Great Dictator, Allen may have felt he had outgrown both the comic character he created and inhabited and the kind of movie his audience expected of him. And so Allen has pulled his persona out of shape, stretching the sad-clown face to accommodate loftier musings. In reaction, moviegoers have pulled back: a Woody Allen movie is not the purring money machine it used...
...Diana has made a really good captain because she is one of the hardest workers on the team and she has always been so supportive of everyone else," junior Cindy Phillips said. "We always tease her and say that she hasn't outgrown being a freshman because it is traditional that the freshmen carry the equipment at the end of the game, but Diane is still doing...
...Essay on "The Metaphysics of War" [May 17] implies that were it not for the apocalyptic possibilities of nuclear technology, war might be thought of as an unpleasant necessity. Until the mid-19th century, slavery was regarded in the same way. We have outgrown slavery. We should also outgrow...
...haven't outgrown my love of sports. I still spend Sunday afternoons watching football, and summer nights at Fenway Park. "You just think that the athletes are cute," I am told. But I guess the Dallas cheerleaders add a lot to the game. There is a hell of a lot more to watching sports than ogling men. I could appreciate a Larry Bird pass whether he looked like Robert Redford or Jimmy Durante...
...service of his nation's diplomacy. Soldier, statesman and swashbuckling hero of Israel's wars with its Arab neighbors, Moshe Dayan occupied center stage in Israel for more than 30 years. By the time he died last week of a heart attack at 66, Dayan had largely outgrown his image as a warrior and become an impassioned advocate of peace...