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Word: rods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Hurt are at their worst. The director lifts the worst parts of the ending of 2001; the screenwriter suddenly discards the rest of the movie in favor of banalities about the "power of love"; and the actor plays it all like Aeschylus, when it's more like Rod McKuen. Eddie Jessup calls his last tango in the tank "the most supremely satisfying moment in my life." Still a young man, poor Eddie may have better days ahead...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cinematic Regression | 1/14/1981 | See Source »

...Romans was staged. Bad enough, for fainthearts in the audience, that the first act contains a lynching, a throat cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around the vast stage of the Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Romans in the Gloamin' | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Added second lineman Rod Walters '80, "In the old days, Harvard didn't score twenty points in the whole season. Keith's turned the entire program around...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Keith Oberg | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...years ago, the Harvard rugby football club crushed Boston University, 32-0. Yet after the Crimson routed the Terriers, 36-4, for its ninth consecutive victory Saturday afternoon at Soliders Field, Rod "Stick" Walters '80, said, "We've wanted them for about a year now." Why such a big deal...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Ruggers Win Ninth, Destroy B.U., 36-4 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...office for the second election in a row for the first time since 1888, and ended one party's control of the Government after only four years for the first time since 1896. In a time of trouble at home and abroad, the President has become the lightening rod for all the discontents of the citizenry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Coast-to-Coast | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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