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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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GETTING OUT This play slams the audience with a more personal discussion of equality. It is 24 hours in the life of a Kentucky woman who entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: At Loose Ends? Get Out | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

The distance between the director and the screen persona is exactly the same as the distance it flatteringly allows the viewer to place between his real and everyday persons. It licenses us to believe that our everyday behavior doesn't truly reflect our character, which is altogether deeper, more astute...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

So Diane Keaton has to get stoned before sex in Annie Hall; this is just a joke (like her family). With Woody Allen, the same situation would be defused (but taken seriously) by a reference to his maternal ogre, a castrating Semite battleaxe. And he's notably coy about showing...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

With bumper stickers and parades, Cantabrigians will honor Cambridge's 350th birthday. Actually, it's the 346th--the city founded in 1630 as Newtowne changed its name to honor the English college town on the banks of the Cam the same year that the Great and General Court granted Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Readies for Celebration Of Cambridge's 350th Birthday | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Rules: Bodychecking in women's hockey is technically taboo--unless players are fighting to gain control of the puck--but referees ten to use their own discretion on checking calls. Stickchecking (including backchecking and forechecking) is permissible, however, and often proves to be the key to a strong defense. Other...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Get Out Your Bluebooks | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

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