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Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only people who make love all the time," Aunt Alicia tells Gigi, "are liars." Aunt Alicia tells Gigi lots of things. Never accept semi-precious stones: to be caught alive wearing an opal is as offensive to her as to be caught dead in substandard undergarments is to Ann Landers. "Bad table manners," she warns, "have broken up more homes than infidelity...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...Fred Furner--"a handsome, athletic-looking young man, the type that directors employ to battle carnivorous vegetables"-- finds himself matter-of-factly in love with BBC star Lady Rosemary Radley. The British Museum, his research on Poet Gay, his semi-estranged photographer wife back home, none of this can check his ecstatic infatuation. Never minding that he must soon return to teach summer school and never noticing "her assumption of a teasing impulsive intimacy which yet holds its victims at arm's length," Turner succumbs, willingly...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: Why Do Intellectuals Fall in Love? | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

Boss topped the University of Maryland's Claudia Borgiam, 7.5, 7.5 in the semi-finals after being down 5-1 in the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boss Nets ITCA Title | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

LAST summer I bought a pair at big black framed sunglasses that make the all others look semi cool at best and for medical reason. I always had an excuse to wear them...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...dear, nice man, who was always warm and sincere with everyone," said Atlantic Monthly Press Managing Editor Natile Greenberg, who consulted with Weld on his book, "Moxie," which described his trans-Atlantic solo trip. She added Weld may have been planning a second, semi-autobiographical non-fiction work...

Author: By Nicholas P. Caros, | Title: Famed Sailor Philip S. Weld Dies at 69 | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

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