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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Come to exotic India! Surrender to the magic and romance of the East! See snowcapped peaks and dusty plains. Visit pastel palaces and brooding temples. Ride painted pachyderms, wander through crowded bazaars, and puff contentedly on a hookah. Meet scheming maharajahs and delicate princesses with those funny earrings in their noses. Sit back as lissome native girls in swirling saris dance for your delight. Take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer: witness the traditional Indian suttee, a barbaric ritual in which a willing Hindu widow is cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband. India. A country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Romance of the Raj | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...Trouble with Harry a corpse, lying in supine complacence on a New England hillside, is discovered by four different people, all convinced they are either murderers or accessories. In The Man Who Knew Too Much, a bickering pair of tourists (James Stewart and Doris Day) allow their son to wander off into a kidnaper's clutches, as a dying man's guilty secret sticks to Stewart ike the swarthy makeup that comes off in lis hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Master Who Knew Too Much | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...when I came to Harvard." Masson says, "It was a very difficult time for me. I felt lonely and ignored, which I was for a long time, and I never really oriented myself in Cambridge. I always felt like a stranger, an outsider, unacceptable. I remember I would sometimes wander the streets around Christmas time, looking in and seeing all those colorful lights inside houses and feeling totally left out," he says...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: A Searching Rebel | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

...profile. It has its public side, with displays next to the glass flowers exhibit at the University Museum. The public museum contains a vast array of exhibits--from stuffed birds, mammals, and dinosaurs to exotic fishes, fossils and other creatures found by natural scientists. Although many children and adults wander about throughout the day, patrons only see a small part of the actual collection...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: MCZ Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

Although these songs are slow and evocative, they never wander or get lost in the background. In fact, only at the end with "Ko Ko Ku" does the music fail to capture and hold the listener's attention. This minor flaw occurs because the ambient music takes over and Anderson's voice becomes lost...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Hitting A New Note | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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