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Word: unclearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably developed a school-girl crush, she whines that he has "options," albeit unused ones for the time being, but options none the less, while he must realize that she has none...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

...Riesman'31 also sees the name change as a recognition ofHarvard's altered emphases. "What they're nowsaying to the world is that what we now are is astraight psychology department. The name changewould say to an outsider, `We don't want to dealwith the dreams, the murky, the unclear anymore,"'explains Riesman, whose book "The Lonely Crowd" isa social science classic and who is noted for hisstudies of higher education...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: PSR Simplifies Moniker, Forsakes SR to Become P | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

...Briggs facelift is the first step in the $27 million proposed Quad renovation project. But in the face of escalating costs and doubts about where future millions will come from, it is unclear how many other Quad buildings will share Briggs's magic transformation. Harvard plans to spend another $15 million on the other two Quad houses, but officials have said that money may not buy the level of luxury originally promised...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: Cabot's Briggs Hall Opens After Facelift | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...College planned to million redoing the Quad. But the completion of Briggs, Barnard and Bertram will dry up the $12 million already raised, and it is unclear where the remaining $15 million will come from...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Lack of Funds May Delay Quad Repairs | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...remember, the film's plot involved the aforementioned good-looking Arab trying to garner the favour of his people by convincing them that he possesses bizarre mystical and religious powers. (Precisely why he wishes to establish himself as a figure of such supreme adulation is left unclear, but let's just assume that life, liberty, and the pursuit of an American Express Platinum Card have something to do with it.) Because he, of course, is not endowed with any such powers, sneaky Omar is forced to hire a cockney magician to entrance the unenlightened masses with an haute-rock-concert...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Boogie Down the Nile | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

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