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Word: prospectively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existence of living quarters and pool tables in some of the clubs, I in no way implied that such living quarters exist expressly for "one night stands" and that pool tables exist as the next best alternative for such nocturnal interludes. This is not only an uncomfortable prospect, it is a bizarre one as well. Let rumors be rumors, but also let the facts be the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clubs | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...stands on Prospect St. in Area 4 of Cambridge, the neighborhood north of Central Square. The church was forced to sell the building due to lack of funds last year, parish members testified...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Citizens Plead for Teen Center | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

Facing the prospect of finishing seventh for the second time in a row, some people are calling for a wholesale re-evaluation of the Olympic hockey program. They're saying, we can't compete. They're saying, we have...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Olympic Panic Sets In | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

...love of money is the root of all evil. Money cannot buy happiness. Many writers would be abashed at the prospect of wringing anything new or interesting out of these hoary maxims. Not Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's magazine and a regular contributor to it as well, whose Money and Class in America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: False Idols MONEY AND CLASS IN AMERICA | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Another Oscar prospect, Lasse Hallstrom's hit Swedish comedy My Life as a Dog, teaches that pubescence is a messy uphill battle. And now two French films arrive to clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy is sent away from home for a wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Rites Of Passage | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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