Word: pared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moviegoers must now trek to the "cine-pare," not "le drive-in," and listen to the "balladeur," a rechristened Walkman French attacks on franglais are by now virtually de rigueur, but the recent assault appears stricter. A court has already leveled a fine of $200 on the Paris Opera, which allowed an American musical using a Paris theater to print its program entirely in English...
...BEST WAY TO adapt a play so rooted in its niche of history would be to pare down its length. Full of intrigues, setbacks, and mistaken identities, the tragedy seems almost comical, and certainly cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...
...magazine's board decided to pare down in order to stress better quality and to increase its emphasis on short fiction, President Erie-Steven Gutienez '84 said yesterday...
...impression that one such possibility might be similar to the proposal that Nitze explored with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, last summer. According to that scenario, later rejected by both Washington and Moscow, the U.S. would base 75 cruise missiles in Western Europe while the Soviet Union would pare its arsenal...
...council agreed in leas than 15 minutes to hire a pare time office manager for less than $6000 and require a typewriter and answering machines for the group's yet-to-be established office...