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Word: wanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blinded slaves populate the folklore of Isle des Chevaliers alongside other tales of horsemen and moaning women who wander through the forest. Morrison echoes the whispers of centuries-old legends in her phrases, animating the landscape and infusing each piece of nature with a soul...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Portrait of the Art Student | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Most immediately, the netmen have a chance to make the West Coast big boys sit up and take notice that Harvard tennis has come of age. But ask any member of the team and his thoughts will wander homeward. He will reply simply and without hesitation, "Beat Princeton...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Psyched for California Slate | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...confront complicated moral matters. While working on the book, Miller became interested in Dostoevsky's use of confessions, a genre she argues, he adopted from Rousseau. "There are two passages in Rousseau which Dostoevsky returns to over and over in parodies and other ways. For instance, Rousseau used to wander the streets at night, then stand under bridges and expose himself. In Dostoevsky, one of the symbols of confession is indecent exposure...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Where the Volga Meets the Charles | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...becomes increasingly obvious that the Baltimore has turned into a flop house. (The missing "e" in the title shows not only how the neon sign has fared, but also hints at the new raison d'etre of the establishment.) Two or more stock hookers-with-hearts-of-gold wander in, complaining about the hot water and "business." They fare little better than Raiser, particularly Ann Diamond as April, who seems to have been given the role solely for her alarming shock of blond hair. Her arms flailing with almost every line, she demonstrates her remarkable unsuitability throughout, but particularly when...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heartbreak Hot 1 | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

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