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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hernia. These, like so much of Giulio's other work, may have come from a classical prototype: the spintriae, or tokens, stamped with obscene designs that were used for entry to Roman brothels in the second century A.D. The engraver Marcantonio Raimondi turned Giulio's I Modi (Ways, for short) into prints, and in this form they became enormously popular. They are still the most famous examples of visual pornography in Western art, although four centuries of attrition by prudery have destroyed almost all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Between The Sistine, And Disney | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...still lack the muscle to override their most powerful opponent. Two weeks ago, George Bush vetoed a bill to permit Medicaid to pay for the abortions of the victims of rape or incest. Last week, by a count of 231 to 191, the House of Representatives fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn him. Bush then vetoed the District of Columbia's $3.4 billion annual budget because it includes Medicaid funds for abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's No-No On Abortion | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Some of the most promising actors in this play are cut short when their characters are murdered, but, gratifyingly, the show is stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...need to control the ball," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "We are a well-balanced team, and if we stick to our game plan of short passing and drawing corners, we should do well. We can't get into a `bash ball' game with the Bruins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen to Play for Title | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

After all, our phone service is much too important to us to risk losing it, for however short a time. There are five of us, and six of them (telephones, that is). We're outnumbered...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

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