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Word: intention (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does a male with equipment akin to parts in a car junkyard and intent on lovemaking conceal such surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

People buy art for all reasons and with all incomes. Broadly, however, they fall into three categories: the amateur, who appreciates beautiful objects for their own sake; the investor, who is primarily intent on making money; and the rare great collector, who assembles treasures on the grand scale that enriches society. Three vignettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Collectors: Three Vignettes | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...They assured me that was not their intent," Epps said, adding, "It is possible to strike a balance...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Students, Epps Discuss Center | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...What is the curse?" Justin muttered, and then in a blur, the statuesque bear hurled itself toward him, intent on the venison Justin carried and Justin noticed the foam spewing from the bear's prognathous jaws...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...women fit their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect she succeeds. Despite her best efforts, Christopher's speech and actions as Kalonike more closely resemble those of Long Island than of classical Greece while Boghossian's Myrrhine, who has a crucial scene with husband Kinesias (Joe Smith), is far more coy and less brazenly seductive than Aristophanes intended. About the only female...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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