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Word: dexterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example, it freights the naive scrubwoman anger of Pirate Jenny with sophisticated detail that is out of character, and enervatingly transforms the last syllable of the second-act finale from a strident long vowel to a swallowed short one. Jocelyn Herbert's cumbersome set obstructs movement, draining energy. But emotion intensifies after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Warmed Over and Not So Hot | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...cane sugar produced in the U.S. and contribute $2 billion a year to the state economy, cried foul. In the past month the battle intensified when the South Florida Water Management District, the main defendant in the suit, proposed a new pollution-control plan aimed at persuading U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen to back off. Lehtinen's reply: "We are going forward with the litigation aggressively." The battle may drag on for years and end up as the most expensive environmental lawsuit ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Gasp for the Everglades | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...implicated high-level Cubans in trafficking. In February 1988, for instance, 17 people were indicted in Miami on charges of smuggling drugs from South America, some of it through Cuba, into South Florida. Last March, when Reinaldo Ruiz, a Cuban-born U.S. citizen, and his son Ruben pleaded guilty, Dexter Lehtinen, the U.S. Attorney in Miami, released a videotape on which Ruben stated that the Ruiz operation had secured cooperation from Cuban officers to use military runways as transit points. Of Cuba's compensation, Ruben said, "The money went into Fidel's drawer" -- a charge that has not been substantiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Reading the Coca Leaves | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...going to the playoffs this year. Bryant hurts himself whenever he walks. Dexter Manley got suspended for drugs. And the Quarterback Shuffle has reappeared--Gibbs switches Williams with the newest new guy, Mark Rypien...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Lost Faith: Gibbs and God | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...Dexter Gate] bears theinscription, 'Enter and grow in wisdom,'" Y.T.Feng, Librarian of Harvard College said. "MayHOLLIS help us to do just that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLLIS Officially Opens at Widener | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

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