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Word: posterity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gives little here as Claude's sultry wife. Trying to look angry at Claude, she seems only catatonic. Producers Marvin Worth and Joe Wizan perhaps cast Kinski for other attributes which she displays generously and frequently. Expect no eroticism, though: the onetime star of Cat People and snake-loving poster pinup gets no kinkier than seducing Moore with a pig's mask...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hilarious Marriage | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

Harvard is planning to buy the building on Church St. which currently houses the Oxford Ale House and the poster department of The Coop...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Harvard Will Buy Local Bar; Future of Building Uncertain | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

Your Essay on euphemisms [Jan. 9] mainly took to task government officials who deal in doubletalk. But now even veterinarians are getting into the act. NEUTER IS NEATER said the poster in the vet's office. Neuter merely sounds negative, whereas castration implies something final. We decided that we would have our dog neutered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...offense flagrant, then my response would be clear. But I can not discern the implications if I can hardly presume the intent. A janitor may have removed it for noncompliance with housing codes, unaware of its significance. Yet, I reject this as unlikely; it was legally hung on poster clay which remains in place, and few janitors would so boldly invade a private doorway. Nor was it a likely candidate for unft. (Who has underworld connections in a $10 mezuza market?) Such a motive seems andesesvedly optimistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bigotry | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

October 11--In his first official move as Faculty Dean, Watt Commissions the buildings of 60 new concrete poster kiosks around the Yard "to improve communications." To complaints that such a move falls outside the Faculty's jurisdiction, Watt replies, "Oh, those rules aren't worth the dead trees they're written on." Bok backs him up. Ousted government officials from Liberia, Guyana, Nepal and Key Biscayne flock to the K-School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year of the Wrap | 1/3/1984 | See Source »

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