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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army heads for the ships cheering, Iphigenia has not yet been sacrificed; Agamemnon cries out and dashes up the steps, while she, hearing his cry, struggles to escape from Calchas and his priests, who are pulling her, screaming, toward the altar. It's Saturday-afternoon-at-the-movies stuff, and it's quite horrible. This manifestly changes the meaning of Iphigenia's death: apart from showing her dissolve into a screaming little girl, when the play leaves her toweringly resolute, her death has become meaningless--she should never have climbed those stairs in the first place. If you thin about...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...month before his physical, Dave started to stuff himself. He ate constantly, with a preference for greasy, fatty food. "It's not hard to get a lot of grease if you eat at the school cafeteria," he said. He also drank large quantities of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Larry's Save-Your-Life Diet | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

Aside from all that great sporting activity at Lamont Library, there will be some stuff down at the Boston Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finding Pits in the Apple | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...Rich. You see, I hear that exposure in your column gave a real boost to the sagging careers of my good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides, it's reading period and all, and the kids need something to lift them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half a Headline | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...lived all his life, who told him that if he prayed hard enough he might get his sight back. "They prayed for me at church and on the radio. Can you imagine how much I hoped I'd be able to see again? They were telling me stuff like put your hand on the radio and God will save you. And I did it. It was a big disappointment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed Bordley Grapples with Being Blind, Being Black and Being at Harvard | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

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