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Word: tankful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who do get in will usually confront a scene designed to stir the imagination. From the shark tank at Area to Danceteria's "Wuthering Heights" elevator, the purpose of the physical accoutrements is to draw the clubgoer out of quotidien life and into a netherworld of unusual activity. The nightclub's ideal role is no longer to provide singles with potential partners or to satiate the hungry dancer with the charm of the bass. Though there is concern with sex and song here, these clubs, more than anything else, attempt to capture and define the sub-culture that...

Author: By Preston W. Brooks and Michael C.D. Okwu, S | Title: Art and Dance in New York | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reductio Ad Absurdam | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Head-of-the-Charles Primer | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...story on the game with Western Union. He had a basic all-purpose alibi format always at the ready. Since then he has revamped the marching band, had a new 20,000-person stadium named in his honor, produced more than 200 future professional football players (among them Paul ("Tank") Younger, Willie Davis, Willie Brown) and not had to use many alibis. Last week Robinson, 66, reached his greatest milestone. After leading the Tigers to victory over Prairie View at the Cotton Bowl, the plain-talking sharecropper's son from Jackson, La., was 324-106-15, passing Bear Bryant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 14, 1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Samore, who now lives in California, said he was only aware that the Rand Corporation, a California think-tank, had provided money for the book...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Michael W. Hirschorn, S | Title: Prof Took 2nd CIA Grant | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

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