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Word: abyss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teenager learning how to smoke. An underling calls with the latest intelligence from fieldworkers: "Bush, by a point or two." The news is hardly reassuring, but Atwater keeps talking about a comeback. "One way a candidate, particularly a front runner, gets good," he says, "is to look into the abyss -- and realize that he doesn't like it one little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again The Man to Beat | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking off the set of the CBS Evening News, the anchorman looked for an instant like Wile E. Coyote when, gimlet-eyed, he understands he is about to plummet into the abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...rages and moral pretensions. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius," sang the cast of Hair, which came to Broadway in April. Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie McGee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...Like mountain climbers on one rope, the world's nations can either climb together to the summit or fall together into the abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps. While the market may have been buoyed by the settlement, losers still outnumbered gainers on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, and the Dow was only 10% above its Oct. 19 abyss. Many Wall Streeters regarded the budget plan as too little too late. "We would have been better off if the talks hadn't even happened," declared John Paulus, a managing director and chief economist at Morgan Stanley. "The difficulty in reaching an agreement shows a lack of determination, a lack of discipline and a lack of leadership in Washington." Steven Einhorn, portfolio strategist at Goldman Sachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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