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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field possession. Hockey, by design, is a game of swift attack, with one team flying up the ice and the other team returning the favor. But last night, Harvard kept the puck in its own end for an inordinate amount of time. The Army could only dig trenches and watch, helpless, as puck after puck spurted into...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Murphy's Hat Trick Helps Icemen Conquer Army, 5-1 | 2/6/1988 | See Source »

...from Cineplex theaters. The air thickened with threats, and as of now, Drabinsky says, "the two corporations are not doing business together." Viewing all these skirmishes, one industry solon is impressed but skeptical. "Drabinsky is very bright and articulate," he says, "but he's also very arrogant. Other exhibitors watch from afar as he builds his Taj Mahals. The next few years will be the telltale heart. Can he handle theater expansion, film and TV production and distribution, and run the theme park as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...states, massaging less than 2% of the population, while the other 98% of the electorate awaited the outcome. Without victory in at least one of these two rounds and a good showing in the other, a candidate would flunk the momentum test, lose his ability to attract contributors and watch his press coverage disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, What A Screwy System | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...comedians joke the essence of being a Jewish male is to feel shame and guilt, then lately I have been an excellent son of Israel. I can't read the newspaper or watch television news broadcasts because reports of fighting in the West Bank and Gaza strip make me nauseous...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Solution For Israel | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility: "It's coffee in the pot and a dirty sugar spoon/ it's towels on the floor of a dirty bathroom/ and a smell like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleazy Street AFOOT IN A FIELD OF MEN | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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