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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that many people have used the grill to date. Richard Montville, assistant director for operations at College dining halls, said that less than two dozen people used the facilty each night. "It's too early to tell how successful this will be," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

President Reagan campaigned in Wisconsin and Ohio, scoffing at Dukakis' claims to being a Democrat in the Harry Truman mold. "I'll tell you one thing, if he's Harry Truman I'm Roger Rabbit," said the Republican campaign surrogate-in-chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Says He Reflects Voters' Hopes | 11/3/1988 | See Source »

...going in with the point of view to tell [the students] to drink or not to drink," said Jamelle M. Gardine '91, the group's co-director. "Whether they drink or not, it is important to talk about these issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

...should emphasize that it's a fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it-were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...Russell is the movies' version of your dotty old aunt -- the one who lives in a house overstuffed with curios, who natters engagingly about arcane ( matters and who, when you ask for a snack, whips up a feast too big for one tummy or a hundred. Don't tell Russell that less is more; he'll say that too much is not nearly enough. His films (The Devils, Mahler, Altered States) are unguided tours of aesthetic excess. They turn classical composers into heavy- metal hellions, history into ranting nightmare, the Great Books into underground comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lady Vamps THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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