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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ultimately, one must go to the fighting front to find out what is really happening there. The Iraqis have built hillocks topped with markers to show the way: here an arrow-shaped stone, there a palm frond. To miss these is to wander into the extensive Iraqi minefields. Forcing the Iranians into those minefields is one secret of Iraq's success. At one point two miles from the international border, the sand is littered with Iranian bodies as far as the eye can see, when it is not squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: A Fifth of Scotch: $300 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

Should you wander from the straight and narrow path in the academic realm, the Handbook has plenty of provisions for steering you back toward propriety. Heavily over committed to various athletic and social diversions, let's say, you decided to lift an article from Sports Illustrated for an essay due the next day. (True story; Boy Scouts' honor.) The only problem is that the issue is from that week, and your section leader has just finished it himself. Hello, Ad Board; hello, page 38: "In preparation of all papers and other work submitted to most course requirements, students should...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...against the ivy, however some fear the University will no longer be recognizable. As one student said at a "save the ivy" rally. "When I first came here...I knew I was at Harvard by the ivy on the walls." University administrators have privately expressed fears that freshpeople who wander off campus could become forever lost in the ivyless maze of Cambridge...

Author: By Jacob M. Schesinger and Steven R. Swartz, S | Title: The Issues of 1982 | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial eye finds amusement in restraint, allowing characters to wander in and out of a static frame, playing droll tricks on his own autocratic camera. Gordon Willis has shot the pastoral exteriors in delicate earth tones. In one lovely shot, Steenburgen, a backwoods madonna, reclines in the high grass and gently places a large, soft hat over her face. Camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Airy Nothing | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

IMAGES of a ravaged country drift before our eyes via television. Homeless adults confront the remains of shelled-out dwellings, abandoned children wander, uncomprehending and terrified; thick black smoke distorts once beautiful skylines. Such are the results of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a foray that has left the Jewish state seemingly, more isolated than ever before. For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel is the outright initiator of a conflict designed to garner security, not survival...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Lebanon and the Facts | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

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