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Word: purees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original position means that all laws for a hypothetical society should be made as if the lawgiver, the citizen, and everyone in between are starting at the same point. In other words, laws should come from a type of pure "legislative mind." Some form of very broad egalitarianism should be a fact, or at least an accepted ideology, within which laws are made, rather than something toward which laws aim (such as the graduated income...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Doing 'Justice' an Injustice | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...lead characters, the steadies-to-be Danny and Sandy (remember John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John?), are one of the show's few weak points. The oh-so-pure Sandra Dee (Susie Glick), though competent, is not entirely convincing. Her singing generally seems a bit forced, as if she wanted to wax operatic. Likewise, her acting is perhaps too stiff for her part...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Grease is the Word | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

Even many pain relievers contain caffeine. Anacin, for example, has 32 mg of caffeine in each tablet to counterbalance the drowsiness effect of pure aspirin, Weidner said...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: Students Consume More Caffeine Than Researchers Had Thought | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Rot | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

...Madonna-esque Ford girl heroine (portrayed, through the eyelashes, by international Cover Girl Adjani), tells a roomful of squares exactly what she thinks of them. With her Bride of Frankenstein fright wig and a gutter-mouthed talent for the unprintable expletive, she makes a speech unparalleled in pure offensiveness. The audience is cued to laugh uproariously. But profanity-as-a-punchline went out with The Bad News Bears, and the audience remains untickled and stone-faced, blushing uncomfortably in a suddenly confining theatre seat...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Sub-Intelligent | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

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