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Word: yawned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at the normally-staid Pennsylvania campus have reacted with a pumpkin-sized yawn. "Nobody's really angry," said senior Anthony R. Ibrahim. "It hasn't been that much of an issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Pat Perversions | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

...tested" in headache-remedy advertising. Many seem to have been invented solely for their soothing rhythm: "Wide-ranging discussions" refers to any talks at all, and "award-winning journalist" to any reporter employed three or more years who still has a pulse. A totally disappointing report, containing nothing but yawn-inducing truisms, can always be described as a "ground-breaking study." The most exciting news on the hyphen front is that adventurous journalese users, like late-medieval theologians, are experimenting with new forms, to wit, multihyphen adjectives. So far, "actor- turnedpolitician," which can be found just to the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Journalese: a Ground-Breaking Study | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Maybe someday, if future directors remember black and white, the complexity of Walker's novel will be better served. Until then, for those who read the book, The Color Purple remains a technicolor yawn...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...that disappointment almost inevitably swept the land. When Spielberg's Amazing Stories debuted on NBC, the reaction from critics and viewers was a widespread yawn. The show's ratings, along with those of NBC's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and CBS's The Twilight Zone, settled into the lackluster middle of the Nielsen pack. A fourth anthology entry, George Burns Comedy Week, was canceled. Some revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Out of the Series Straitjacket | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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