Search Details

Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

And I remembered how I would have reacted in high school to someone who actually went to the Harvard-Yale game. There was a time when I was repulsed by the mere idea that thousands of Harvard and Yale students and alumni would really fill a stadium to cheer about...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Can't Help Being Bourgeois | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

They forgot about Mikey, the embryo (and then infant) with star quality. Sassy but never cynical, Mikey is first seen, through some cunningly simple special effects, as a kind of hot-rodding sperm cruising up the Fallopian tube to the tune of the Beach Boys' I Get Around. "The sperm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Whole Town's Talking | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Moviegoers love babies, of course. A lame comedy like 3 Men and a Baby earned $168 million by offering little more than Tom Selleck diapering a child. The talking baby is another familiar Hollywood tradition; street-smart infants narrated the film The First Time (1952) and a 1960 sitcom called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Whole Town's Talking | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

It has brought blessed relief to a few careers. For the Kansas-born Alley, "this is my big blockbuster. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, I'm clicking my heels." Travolta, back on top after years of languishing, says the movie "makes people happy. It makes them feel good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Whole Town's Talking | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

The leftist SWAPO Party, which led a guerrilla war against South Africa for 23 years, is expected to win a majority of the 72 seats in the National Assembly, but the key question will be the size of its victory. If SWAPO gains two-thirds of the seats, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia: Patience and Clenched Fists | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | Next