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Word: rotted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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MINIMALISM is the reduction to the essential. In theatre, the minimalist sifts through the rubbish heap of human existence, grabbing out the sparse edible pieces and tossing the rest back into the pile to rot. These few scraps, rare moments when people step out of their well-worn, meaningless grooves and follow instincts and impulses represent the minimalist thesis that most lives reduce to a few short intense moments. Gripping the production of David Mamet's Reunion tightly as a pack of howling canines chasing an axe murderer, director Sam Samuels and actors Alice Brown and Ralph Zito prove, with...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Mamet's Minimums | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

...ghoulish Star Trek villain MIT will snatch them from behind and suck all of the life juices from their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

Cambridge's first Irish immigrants were poor and pious, displaced from their farms or starved out by the potato rot which struck in 1845. With neither the money nor the supplies to follow the Germans and the Swedes inland, they found jobs in the city's new factories and settled in tenements along the river...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Cambridge Eyes Were Smiling | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...survivalist market. The properties are touted as "excellent for passive solar home/earth shelter with food-producing greenhouse." Saxon predicts a threefold increase in sales for his survival-book business which grossed $100,000 last year, carrying such titles as Granddad's Wonder Book of Chemistry, Root Rot and The Complete Book of Midwifery. Neo-Life Co. of America, a major producer based in Hayward, claims a similar increase in sales, are now topping $1 million a Survival Inc., a mail-order survival-food and -equipment outlet in Carson, boasts 5,000 customers- a 400% from a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Planning for the Apocalypse Now | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...race, defendants' rights and other explosive issues. Yet as Chief Justice Warren Burger and his colleagues packed their summer bags last week, appraisers of their latest term agreed on one thing, if on little else: while some parts of the Warren Court legacy were suffering from dry rot, others had been buttressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nine Minds of Its Own | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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