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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Timer Howard Deutch is a nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat. Like Hughes, he is eager to let his fine young actors strut their stuff: McCarthy, his tight, knowing smile intoxicating every female in sight (and doesn't he know it); Cryer, prancing, caroming, jiving nonstop, exploding into a sublime lip synch of Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness; Ringwald, the henna-haired emotional anchor. With their help, any attentive moviegoer can walk into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Pains Pretty in Pink | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...cares about the technology of orgasm? Sex is supposed to be part of a relationship, not a high school biology course. Some women have orgasms without contractions, and the white coats smile down and say, "Sorry, we can't count those because we can't measure them." Same old stuff of males using science to define and control women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...from," Sanskrit's Tubb admits. Afro-Am offers most courses on a rotating basis every three years in order to allow concentrators to fulfill their requirements, Hyatt says. "We can't offer the breadth of courses required by the needs of the college," he says. "Unless I offer new stuff every term, the concentrators are going to run out of courses to take...

Author: By Cecile E. Kuznitz, | Title: Good Concentrations Come in Small Packages | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...started looking into these laser-beam things and stuff like that, but the research wasn't very promising. Well, I was having lunch with a few of the guys from the military-industrial complex last week and said, "C'mon, how hard can this thing be? You have a missile travelling six miles per second up there. Anything you throw at it is going to do some damage." Then the idea...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Safety in Numbers | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Other pre-freshmen, though, did not seem as enthused with the classes they visited. "I've always considered myself to be a science person, so I went to neurobiology," says Priest. "I found it boring. A lot of the stuff I'd done before...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Wining and Dining the Class of '90 | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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