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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Don Fleming sank an 18-foot jumpshot from the right corner with :02 left in the game to give Harvard a 61-60 victory over Brown University under the yellow lights of Marble Gymnasium here last night...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Fleming Cans Shot at Buzzer To Win Thriller Over Brown | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...Feel the Air contains a basically lighthearted approach to its theme. But its companion play, The Yellow Wallpaper, builds in unmitigated horror. The drama, adapted from an autobiographical short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, parallels the Colette story to an amazing degree--only from the opposite perspective. Gilman became very depressed shortly after she married--for no apparent reason, unlike Colette. Mr. Gilman was devoted, attentive, and gently bewildered by his wife's desire to become an author--killing her with kindness, in effect. She was finally committed to an insane asylum, where doctors told her she should quit writing...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Simon at the Shubert and Spies at the Pudding | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...plays in effect present contrasting visions of two trapped women: one wants to write, and one is forced to. I Can Feel the Air is a tale of a triumphant soul whereas The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the inexorable crushing of a human spirit...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Simon at the Shubert and Spies at the Pudding | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

Chapter II--Shubert Theater, 8 p.m. I can Feel the Air & The Yellow Wallpaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: February 22-28 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...yellow-white leather gleamed, and you picked it up and untied the sneaker lace wound around it to keep the pocket good over the winter. The tennis ball, which had anchored the pocket since September, popped out once you put it on, but it felt good and strong after its seven-month hibernation...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

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