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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glistening torsoes intertwined--rhythmically tantalizing, exhaustingly erotic, you hang on every suspended limb. What a shame the number ends on a preachy note, something about taking you everywhere and getting you nowhere: the most sensual of show-biz choreographers dumping on his most sensual number for the sake of a few themes...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Gideon's Babble | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...insatiable nature of Communist regimes have proved to be in vain because the acceptance of such a view would be too terrifying. (Did not the Afghan tragedy in fact take place two years ago? But the West shut its eyes and postponed recognizing the problem-all for the sake of an illusory detente.) For decades it has been standard practice to deny reality by citing "peaceful coexistence," "détente," "the Kremlin leadership's pursuit of peace." Meanwhile Communism envelops country after country and achieves new missile capabilities. Most amazing is that the Communists themselves have for decades loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn on Communism | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Crews thinks the discovery has important implications. "What we have found here," he says, "is the first evidence of animals where sex and sexuality are independent of each other." Still, it is too early to announce that sex for its own sake was first discovered by lizards. The mounting behavior may serve to synchronize the egg laying, or increase the number of eggs. Or it may be, according to Crews, that the malelike behavior among the female lizards is a kind of "compensation" for life without males. Or it might be an evolutionary hangover from the good old male-female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Leapin' Lizards! | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...right, mon," allowed the lady. "You'll tell 'em at the dock?" the American continued. "No trouble, mon." The conversation became progressively more surreal until the Statian woman inquired: "Where you callin' from, mon?" "Saudi Arabia. Where are you, for Pete's sake?" "St. Eustatius, mon." "St. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Still Pristine Caribbean | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...unlike many, he claims not to live vicariously through his players. "My day is over--I don't get any satisfaction myself from the wins and losses." he says. "I just see these kids work so hard that when they don't win, it kills me for their sake...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: The Puck Stops Here (?): Life as a Beanpot Goalie | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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