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Word: trysting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive dean, he hopes that the K-School can free itself to address larger questions. "I think old-fashioned questions of political philosophy will become more wide-spread," he says. If they do, Graham Allison will be right in the thick of the debate, whether at a Trilateral Commission tryst or a Council of foreign Relations meeting. He will travel to keep in touch with what he terms the "marketplace"--he squeezes about six appointments a day into his weekly sojourns to Washington or New York--always on the ball, hustling, but never fully forgetting his role as a model...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should not be ignored: for He brought upon this production a plague of unfunny punch lines and lackluster performances. There are a couple of droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thou Shalt Not | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

ONCE UPON A TIME, in the far away land of Arabia, there lived a princess fair. She fell in love with a commoner, but her family forbade their marriage. Then her angry grandfather, the king's brother, accused her of meeting him in a sinful tryst. The maiden of 19 years was shot to death at her grandfather's orders, and the commoner she loved was decapitated in a public square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Old Tale | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

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