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Word: walls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesperson for the Charles says that the acoustics are good because of the small size of the theaters and because each stage is a "four-wall rental" and the show's companies bring all their own equipment...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Boston Theater Refuses to Be Upstaged | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Nothing. Just another, "Do you have a pass?" I smiled again. Maybe a different question this time--"Who is Cardinal Cushing?" This time she pointed at a picture on the wall above her of the former Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing, and asked again, "Do you have a pass?" Clearly I was not going to avoid this question. I shook my head no, and she piloted me into the principal's office...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Faraway Stops on the T...You Never Thought You'd See | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...shares at a sharply lower price. But they were on the trail again by January, closing in on Stop & Shop. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts stepped in, as it had with Safeway, to help engineer a leveraged buyout, but the Hafts made $17 million dumping their stock as the price rose. Wall Street wags joked that Kohlberg should pay Dart a finder's fee for clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shopping-Cart Raiders | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...which brought us such satirists as Mort Sahl and Paul Zaloom. Unfortunately, as a satirist, Bogosian is only fair. He relies too heavily on stereotypes, especially in a bit about a high-powered, slimy executive of a type that is already familiar from Mamet and movies like Wall Street. In another somewhat ineffective monologue, Bogosian creates a Spinal Tap-like over-the-hill rocker, and the jokes seem stale and repetitive...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: All My Brain and Body Need | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

Although they may not agree on exactly what CLS is, Crits like Harvard Professor of Law Duncan Kennedy--who casually smokes a cigar outside of the conference--say they've put the establishment up against the wall...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paying a Visit to the Crits | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

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