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Word: quicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet prognosticators also give Mission a slight edge in the races for both the men's and women's titles. A quick glance at Schubert's line-up will show you why. It reads like an all-star team...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Looks Like Mission Possible | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...reshaped according to the whims of its experienced performers and the peculiarities of the audience and the space. At the beginning of this production, when the actors lug in part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb Mainstage. With the orchestra pit unaccountably retained for a handful of musicians, it feels like watching a play from the opposite side...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Predictable Pratfalls | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...oarswomen continued to increase their lead when MIT's bowman caught a crab and a quick reaction by freshman Sabatino put the eight in the middle of a power ten before MIT recovered. With 500 meters to go, there was open water, and with the opposition keeping a stodgy stroke rate of 29, there was no last-minute comeback...

Author: By William F. Hammond jr., | Title: Women Lights Earn Win | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...mean much anymore/I don't mean to be mean much anymore") is a muddled mishmash of images. Elvis knocked senseless by machines, people weaving and stumbling around that nightclub, discovering later that the outside world is just as brutal and disorderly, with "millions murdered for a kiss-me-quick." (Think of "The Human Touch," which at least assumed there was such a thing, or that it could heal, anyway.) "Strict Time," which follows, is the alternative--Shut Up and Dance, with the Attractions providing a relentless, broken-record riff that keeps Elvis on a treadmill. (Elvis is marvelous at trapping...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...innocent obsessions in Breaking Away, Deever's are misconstrued, then used as bait against him. The pace of the city brings about an urgency and neurosis which transforms even the simplest of actions, like playing with a dog, with an air of danger. Peter Yate's direction, with quick cuts and short clips, adds to the undertone of sickness...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Scene of the Crime | 4/1/1981 | See Source »

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