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Word: utters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into utter implausibility. And the casting of Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, who cannot help projecting intelligence and the will to prevail, is inimical to the story's cause. Still, the painful honesty of the play's psychological observations survives and remains worthy of attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Oct. 6, 1986 | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

DAVID LYNCH'S FILMS leave you dishrag limp and beyond commentary. Blue Velvet, his new movie, a "mystery thriller" analogous to Alfred Hitchcock's "family drama" Psycho, should come with seatbelts, or restraining harnesses, whatever it takes to keep the overwhelmed viewer from being sucked into all the utter energy on the screen...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

This is the first time in a couple years that a Columbia coach can truthfully utter that cliche, because the last few Lions' squads have been woefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Prospectus 1986: Over 100 Years of Hands-On Action | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only." And, of course, pleasant voices and a mix of tasteful music. Grandbanke has outlined Geller's deficiencies in a succession of legal forums. (You cannot even find out how the Sox are doing from WVCA, and Geller will probably never utter the name Larry Bird unless Bird takes up the violin.) The corporation has made it clear that it wants to take away Geller's license for the good of Gloucester -- pro bono publico, as it were -- and not, as Geller has shamefully implied, because an FM station within range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...whole concept of the organization. "What is the validity of a movement that cannot defend a member country if it is attacked?" asked Gaddafi, referring to the April 15 bombing of Tripoli by American jets. "I want to say goodbye, farewell to this funny movement, farewell to this utter falsehood. I am totally aligned against America, totally aligned against Israel, totally aligned against NATO. The dream of neutrality is over. There is no place for nonalignment anymore." But later, when reporters pressed him to know if Libya would withdraw from the nonaligned movement, Gaddafi smiled and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe Harangues in Harare | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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