Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first book printed with movable metallic type. Most experts have awarded that honor to Gutenberg's two-volume, 1,282-page Bible, printed some-time between 1450 and 1455 with 42 lines of type a page. But doubts remained because of two cruder works of the mid-1400s: a rare 36-line Bible and a scrap of paper known as the Sibyllenbuch fragment, also printed in 36-line type. The question that has nagged scholars for years is whether these works were produced by Gutenberg or by someone known only as the 36-line printer...
Remarking on the first bullet, before the second was found, he said, "What makes this bullet rare is the combination of metals and the proportion between the metals...
Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke is not one to back away from trouble. Appearing last week on the Donahue television program to answer questions about the Tylenol poisoning earlier this month, Burke reacted swiftly when one caller denounced the culprit as a terrorist. In a gesture that was rare for a buttoned-down businessman, he clenched his fist and pumped it in the air, as if to say, "Right on. I agree...
Reddin is bringing off a rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly...
...Congressional District seat held by departing Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. Bachrach is prominent among more than a dozen candidates for that office, and is one of four state legislators leaving their seats open to competition among a host of local politicians in this rare game of musical chairs...