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Word: tenderizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale has the league's premier goal-tender, Mike O'Neill (a first-team All-ECAC selection last year). But O'Neill can't stop every puck that comes his way. In the meantime, his offense has been camped out in the neutral zone, singing songs and toasting marshmallows...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Yale Finally Breaks the Ice...and More Stuff I Think | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...defiance of the "rules" of drama, Wilder kills off half a dozen characters without offering even one juicy onstage death scene, and the mourners are limited to one wordless gesture and one choked cry. Although the play appears to celebrate the tender bonds of family and community, the beauty of human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scraping Away the Sentiment OUR TOWN | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...Reeves." While it is easy to make fun of ineptitude, it's quite another thing to make it sweet and touching. When Debbie and Mary can get a seen-it-all, done-it-all Greenwich Village audience on its feet, unabashedly doing the hokey-pokey and, later, singing a tender, hushed chorus of Joseph P. Webster's 1868 pop-religious hit Sweet By and By, they deserve to be proud as punch. After the performance, in fact, they even serve punch in the lobby; right to the end, the joke is on us. "One thing that we've proved tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...taste you don't want to acquire," consoled my mother, who wasn't too anxious to have her daughter become a caffeine addict at the tender age of 13. Now, at 19, I make no pretenses; coffee has become an essential part of my life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...personal statement. As the man himself puts it, "The road is dark/And it's a thin thin line/But I want you to know I'll walk it for you any time." This is an album full of drippy romantic notions renewed that finally concludes that love is tough and tender, a sacrifice worth celebrating...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Married in the U.S.A. | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

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