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Word: throughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then you notice the rest of the set--boards with crudely drawn small black stick figures and gruesome masks. The remaining surface of each panel is painted light blue, except for the splotches where white boards shows through. You think to yourself that they are trying to give the impression...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Few of the women fit their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Letters, By John Barth. (Putnam, $16.95): John Barth's endless epistolary novel takes five of the author's old characters and one new one and sets them to writing letters, usually not to each other but to dead people, themselves, imaginary characters, or the author. The letters go on forever...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Obviously toys today cater to a media-conscious following. And for those not in the know, shopping can be disheartening. An older gentleman speaking in heavily-accented English wandered through the Jordan Marsh toy department. Approaching a stranger he demanded excitedly "Where are the Legos? At FAO Schwartz, at Filenes...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

But for the Crimson players, with visions of a massive upset dancing through their heads, the final 85-73 defeat was like a Christmas present that Santa got just halfway under the tree before the Grinch snatched it away.

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Suhprize, Suhprize, Suhprize | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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