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Word: adamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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As president of Harvard, I find myself in a rather touchy situation. While planning our 350th anniversary celebration, to be held a year from September, it occurred to me that it would befit tradition for the other President to make a speech. The White House people were very polite, explaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honors: Bok in a Hard Place | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Bradbury is only one of several well-known authors who are collaborating with computer software companies in adapting their novels to "interactive fiction," an electronic form of literature that transforms the reader into an active participant in the plot. A version of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Stepping into the Story | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

One would expect that the children of such a mother would be a bit odd, and they are. Two narcissists that resemble Adams House stereotypes play co-stars in their mother's little melodramas. Philip Resnik is the very portrait of the artist as a young snob, but Laurence Bouvard...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: No Sneezes | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

Hi, all you little Eves. And you Adams, too. I'm Muscles the snake. Don't worry, I don't bite, except in the wallet. I'm one of "Michael's Pets." We're stuffed toys based on actual animals that live at Michael Jackson's house. For $22 you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1985 | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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