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Word: 90s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever happened or did not happen in the bedroom, Mary was not a large part of Barrie's life. His chief attachments were reserved for male youths. Finally, in the late '90s, he met and, in effect, married his true love: the Davies family. Arthur Davies was a successful barrister, his wife Sylvia a woman of memorable vivacity. They had five sons, each as perfect in his way as David had been so long ago. Slowly, almost insidiously, the playwright enveloped them with his charm and money. All but one of the boys adored Barrie and his tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...gathering of Lautrec's tribe, his best male friends and the cabaret women who were the main characters of his art. It also seems to be Lautrec's most complete answer to the Parnassian pretensions of French artists' circles in the '90s-the kind of high-mindedness he had mocked as a student, ten years before, with an acrid parody of Puvis de Chavannes's Sacred Grove, into whose pallid scattering of muses he introduced a line of stray moderns from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gaslight and Fallen Souls | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Young successful couples throw themselves into town-house renovations in the East 90s only to discover that the strain and the cost drive them to separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Sings The Blues | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Surprisingly enough, it is possible to trace playing golf on the ice back to a distant origin. Samuel Parrish, one of the founders of Shinnecock Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island wrote: "One winter's day in the '90s Major Morton and myself went over to Lake Agawam to hit a few balls around on the ice. The Major suggested that I make an attempt to break all records for driving a golf ball. We selected a suitable spot and I managed to hit a good one which, with a strong wind, carried to the ice and, once...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

Every St. Patrick's Day, Marie Howe holds an Irish celebration, complete with Gay '90s music. Tickets sell for $10, which is less than the $15 campaign-donation disclosure fee and thus allows participants to avoid having their names filed with the state elections commission...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Patronage, Nepotism and Conflict of Interest | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

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