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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more accessible play. Its plot is less confusing (though only slighty less so--in both plays, important questions are left unanswered until the final moments). It also has only two characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Still Crazy After All These Years | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

...book by the American science writer Martin Gardner. Soaking up the water in his toilet with rags, then leaning deep into the bowl, he took lessons in Hebrew from a fellow prisoner stationed at his own bowl in an adjacent cell, who called out to him through the lavatory pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Game Plan FEAR NO EVIL | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Michele Uhlfelder then fired a penalty shot past Dermody, wrapping it around the opposite pipe, to cut the Harvard lead...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Trip Terps, 10-7 | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...officer flashed his warning lights, and the driver stopped. Looking into the auto, Cieplensky spotted six canisters protruding from a nylon flight bag on the back seat. Some were labeled BLACK POWDER. The trooper was even more astonished at what he found on the floor: three high-power pipe bombs contained in red fire-extinguisher cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs In New Jersey and Naples | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...When he first ran for Governor in 1974, he made his famous "lead pipe" promise not to raise taxes. During his first administration, he implemented a wonderful device known as a surtax--i.e., a tax on your taxes. During his 1986 campaign for reelection, he conveniently decided to repeal the surtax, which allowed him to claim on the presidential campaign trail that he had cut taxes...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Afraid to Put Up His Duke-s | 3/8/1988 | See Source »

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