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Word: relentlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot sounds supremely irrelevant, which is why Shakespeare's original is better seen than read, in music, it's all supremely entertaining. The Boys From Syracuse abounds with laughs (the weakest song, "You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea," is the lease witty,) but the comedy never becomes relentless. The characters while obviously comic types, never degenerate into mere cardboard cutouts to be manipulated according to the exigencies of plot, they don't have three dimensional life, but thanks to the music they at least gain two dimensional animation...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Live From Syracuse | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

...were alone," says Moore, "but sometimes when other people were around, there was a competition. One of us was always trying to get the better of the other and, in public, we each adopted a superior attitude. He was bored by my desire to please, and I scorned his relentless and perverse cynicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cuddly Dudley, the Wee Wonder | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Those eerie similarities to the last years of Howard Hughes are part of the mysterious portrait that onetime associates sketch of L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 71, founder and guiding inspiration of the Church of Scientology. As proclaimed by Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that sees life as a relentless struggle to erase painful mental images (called "engrams" in the cult's jargon) that block a person from achieving his full potential and that may accumulate through his successive incarnations. Hubbard has insisted that he lived through a series of incarnations and that he was in fact 74 trillion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystery of the Vanished Ruler | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...part of Smokestack America, steelmaking finds itself struggling to survive not just the current downturn but a whole host of other, longer-lasting problems. These range from the lofty, uncompetitive wages of the unionized employees, to the antiquated state of many of the mills and fabricating plants, to the relentless pressure of foreign competitors who are themselves burdened with bulging capacity and weak domestic markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Steel's Winter of Woes | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...techniques are posing embarrassing questions either to get an offguard answer or, failing that, to describe the subject's evasive tics and mannerisms. Hatchet jobs survive, among other places, in the Style section of the Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims 1983 as the year "when it is really Out to be In," which rendered pointless the whole silly exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Cutting Down to Size | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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