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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his nervous gestures and his half-exhausted grandiosity (he tires before he can really come through). His gestures become more frantic, his reasoning more strident as he is the antithesis of Louis, who prides himself on his logic and dispassionate aloofness, and his slightly cynical humor. The two wander around the outline on the apartment floor, the play delves into the absurd and it is full of discordant, funny bits. All of this changes, however, when Randolph gives his theory of the cases--an increasingly bizarre trip through the reaches of what pilots call the envelope--a theory...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: 'Jump, Jump' | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...Dream Dances, set to eleven folk song adaptations by Italian Composer Luciano Berio, the dancers move explicitly to the rhythm of I Wonder As I Wander. But later, in Motettu de Tristura, the slow, sad music is a counterpoint to a dance of restless erotic energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: And Now, the Netherlanders | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...some peanut butter at one of the two convenience stores, mail a postcard at the South of the Border post office. It's dark now, and not many people are left around, so I wander the streets and reflect. Amigoland is absolutely deserted, the Mini-Mex golf course dark as night. So this is America, very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy. A little grease and pavement, but there's the sweet smell of exhaust in the air and fun all around. Sombrero towers; steak rooms; fireworks; mini gold; barrooms; postcards; ice cream; swimming pools. I feel at home here...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: 18 Hours South of the Border | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...around each performance, and those walking the block-long stretch moved slowly through, leaving one show and attaching themselves to the crowd at the next, walking from one sound into another. Many of the onlookers could have been anywhere--the well-dressed, well-groomed young men and women who wander around Quincy Market eating overpriced ice cream when they're not doing the same in the Square. Others were more Cantabrigian--t-shirts and cutoffs, mid-20s, long hair. And some, though not a lot, were hippies, for lack of a better term. Harvard Square...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Between the Lines | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...solid team player. There's no danger that he'll wander off freelance, like Stockman has a tendency to do. That gives him added clout in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marine Has Landed | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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