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Word: whelm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tells the story with such mastery of his craft, and such freshness. Like the capitalist he caricatures, he leaves nothing to chance, but leaves one struggling to plum a multi-layered text whose overtones expand and recede in too many directions. His extensive philosophic dialogues over-whelm the characters who engage in them so earnestly (yet so easily...

Author: By Shepard R. Barbash, | Title: An Unknowing Polemic | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

Then the music and the fireworks over whelm you and you feel something you don't expect, the shivers, and this time it's not the cold...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Man and Superman in Lake Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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