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Word: puzzlements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of the camera, hearing the film whirring through its mechanisms." In between movies he goes off on solitary searches for some other kind of fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting and come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Irresistible Force and the Immutable Object | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...puzzlement must have quickly vanished at the start of the second stanza. A Wheaton guard grabbed a tip-off and swiftly drove down the court the wrong way, leaving nine startled players behind...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: 'Cliffe Cagers Explode in Second Half, Storm Over Wheaton Quintet, 50-40 | 12/12/1975 | See Source »

...surprising that many of us who stay here are puzzled about those who leave, or that our puzzlement is compounded by the likelihood that, in addition to students who "vote with their feet" by taking time off or withdrawing from Harvard, there are increasing numbers of strong, intelligent young people who "vote" by never applying here to begin with. It kinda makes you wonder about the rest...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Why They Leave | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

Europeans find New York City's problems hard to understand because they cannot imagine a national government on the Continent allowing one of its major cities to go bankrupt. Amid the puzzlement, however, Europeans were deeply disquieted as they read of President Ford's New York policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Europe's Fear of the Shock Waves | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...veritable woman without a country. Ever since they began pulling the undergraduate rug from underneath her through a series of Harvard-Radcliffe mergings that has reduced Radcliffe to a couple of letterheads and a post office box, Horner's day-to-day role in the University has been a puzzlement. What ever it is, she plays it with gusto, and she is one of the more accessible administrators in the University...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Administration at Harvard: All the President's Men | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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