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Word: pricklies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jealousy, career vs. home life, husband vs. wife, son vs. mother. As it was, he wrote three full-length plays (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, What the Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily amoral wit. Now Alan Bennett has dramatized Orton's life in Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr's nifty biography. Both works take their title from a farce Orton planned to write. The title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still Crazy After All These Fears | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Bachrach told the protestors that their efforts would prick the conscience of other students...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: House of Representatives Candidate Tells Activists Shanties Should Stay | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

Representative Richard S. Eisert '88, the man who spearheaded the drive to bring chocolate milk to dining halls, offers his own suggestion: "Come Prick...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: As Time Goes By | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

...KIDS SAY "hi" back to Nadav Safran Who handled the CIA with such great elan. To you we proffer our young butts to kick, A sleighful of insults, and a conscience to prick. And what of Doug Hibbs, who's been kicked out of Eden On "medical leave" from Berlin to Sweden? Here's a new playground for you to find kicks; Have you considered a position with the New York Knicks? And to the entire Gov Department a graduate class Not filled with women all charging "harass!" To chairman Bob Putnam, six pounds of patience--He'll need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

Witness to War is a politic portrait of a model humanitarian, a film designed to prick the American psyche without baring the blade...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Guzzetti's Risk | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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