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Word: ponderously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through interesting plays on the perspective of the audience at the end of the play and with lines such as Rabbit's "You can't mix real life with the movies," the audience is left to ponder with which characters they identify...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: Angelic Metamorphoses | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...Failure is not allowed," Muslim patriarch Saeb Salam instructed 63 surviving members of the Lebanese parliament elected in 1972 as they sat down to ponder a solution for their country's devastating 14-year civil war. In fact, failure in Lebanese peace efforts has become almost customary. But after two weeks of consultations in the Saudi Arabian resort of Taif, the parliamentarians -- 33 Christians and 30 Muslims -- were close to agreement on a plan to establish a "government of national reconciliation." It calls for Muslim-Christian power sharing and phased withdrawal of the 40,000 Syrian troops who have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON If This Is Peace . . . | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Last week the House passed a loser, but now the Senate will have an opportunity to ponder the same issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Listen Up, Tax Tinkerers: Let's Be Fair | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...climax of the film is not enough, the final ideas left for the viewer to ponder are a pair of quotes from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King explains why violence is always destructive for everyone, and Malcolm X describes why violence may be necessary sometimes...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Do the Right Thing: Go See This Movie | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...they attend the best schools, get the best jobs, live in luxury apartments and drive Mercedes-Benz to shop in special stores. Such advantages naturally gall the less favored. "Why him and not me?" asks a party official who was recently leapfrogged by a young taizi pai colleague. "You ponder the question, and the answer is nepotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much All in the Family | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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