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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winningest coach in Yale football history, Cozza enters his 20th year amidst speculation that it will be his last. Surely, Cozza has to be worth a few more victories, and surely his team will try to let him go out a winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Jean, from his soon-to-be-released album Tonight, Bowie assumes two roles. Sometimes he is Lord Byron, sometimes he is a sign painter named Vic, vainly trying to convince his girlfriend that he and the randy aristocrat are buddies. Seems like old times, but the period is mid-20th century. "Blue Jean is a '50s-style short," explains Bowie. "This is where videos are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...history had swung women's status back to just about where it was 100 years before. But in the meantime, women had talked. Women had thought for themselves. In Eraser's phrase, history held the door open briefly and, as we who read the 17th century with 20th century eyes know, nothing was ever quite the same again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Soldiers and Acid Tongues | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...rugged brush of the Palmdale desert about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. There in their camouflage fatigues, they plot strategy and generally run around shrieking and shooting like underfed versions of SylvesterStallone in First Blood. Says Ron Rotholz, an assistant to Lawrence Gordon, president of 20th Century-Fox: "Survival is the name of the game in Hollywood. The game is a smaller version of the dog-eat-dog world of show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Most Dangerous Game | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...machine in the garden, the beautiful conveyance and its disturbing effect, is a central theme of the show and a dilemma of the 20th century. Will the automobile drive us to distraction or delight? This exhibition provides no answers, but it poses some of the most provocative questions of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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