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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelty of the moment and the athleticismof Lockbaum made it seem a little lessreprehensible that the Crusaders were passing onfirst-and-goal late in the fourth quarter...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crusaders Cross Up Gridders; Unholy Attack Renewed, 41-6 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...family shows, such as Father Knows Best, were as much earnest morality plays as laugh-out-loud comedies, and groundbreaking sitcoms like All in the Family and M*A*S*H demonstrated more than a decade ago that TV comedy is not incompatible with social commentary. Still, genre labels seem especially askew these days. Bruce Willis won this year's Emmy Award for lead actor in a drama series for Moonlighting, a show patterned after Hollywood's breezy romantic comedies of the 1930s. Michael J. Fox was named best actor in a comedy for Family Ties, whose most celebrated segment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Not Playing It for Laughs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...moment, takeovers have become a perilous pursuit. Many deals in progress when the crash hit have been scuttled or are in jeopardy because the original bids seem absurdly high after the drop in stock prices. Dart Group, a retail conglomerate controlled by Washington's Haft family, dropped its $68-a- share bid for the Dayton-Hudson department-store chain when the target company's shares fell to $30. Hong Kong-based Jardine Strategic Holdings called off a $390 million bid to buy a 20% interest in Bear Stearns when shares of the Wall Street firm plummeted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Raiders Retreat - for Now | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Some of these block puzzles seem to be works of art as well as a challenge, made of cherry and rosewood, or combinations of fine woods varnished to a high lustre, so that they are almost too pretty to take apart...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: MIT's Puzzle Paradise | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Venetian Binds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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