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Word: shallower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salubrious shores, where a quick education in paranoia, cynicism and the perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks, as the produce merchant who loves her, start to get goopy, there is a New York City street person available to assert the reality principle: Eugene Levy, splendid as a mad scientist who seems to have wandered in from a Jaws sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...that change appears unlikely, because the media, in general, is shallow shortsighted in its interpretation of events. Instead of being the exception, the Olympic coverage America has received is the rule: one dimensionalism pervades everywhere throughout the world of mass media...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Media: the True Olympic Loser | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

Leading the Crimson should be its three four-year blueliners, Megan Berthold, Sue Newell and Deb Taft. The Crimson is as shallow as the Huskies are deep, and Harvard Coach John Dooley will have to rely on the trio to carry the full defensive burden...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Do You Have a Doubt? | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Even though Barnes claimed last year that he would seek Executive clemency and adopted a repentant tone ("My whole life was shallow"), such meekness will probably go for naught. Barnes volunteered to talk for no more than the assurance that his cooperation would be brought to the attention of the Government. U.S. prosecutors, who last week produced a 19-page memo detailing Barnes' cooperation, insist that the one man who has the power to grant clemency, the President, is hardly likely to give even as much as a chance for parole. Asks Assistant U.S. Attor-Tney Philip Douglas: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling Tales | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...looked a mile forward, they also looked two miles back. Their inherent structure had nothing to do with German or any other kind of modernist expressionism. It was closer to cubism, but with the turning and flickering of cubist shape given a jostling density, almost literally made flesh: a shallow grid torn and reconstituted by the wristy, virile, probing action of de Kooning's line. His two near monochrome abstractions at the end of the decade, Attic, 1949, and Excavation, invoke the body without depicting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting's Vocabulary Builder | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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