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Word: agedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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As Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

Stacked up against those three white middle-aged men was an anchor team that made a striking symbolic statement. Washington-based Bernard Shaw, CNN's leading political correspondent, is black; Catherine Crier, based at the network's Atlanta headquarters, is a woman. Inadvertently, the choice of Crier, brought in from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Going Up Against the Big Three | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangerous is the tale of two aristocrats, Valmont and the Countess Juliette, who plot the seduction of several young women including Cecile Volanges and Madame de Tourvel. Cecile has a jovial middle-aged fiance, a source of some amusement as he bumbles about. She also has a...

Author: By Mark D. Payson, | Title: Dangerous Name of the Game | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

What gall. If I had a nickel for every time I've paced the gym floor sidelines at the Malkin Athletic Center (Three basketball/volleyball courts for 5500 non-Quad undergraduates) while waiting for balding, middle-aged, brick-shooting B-School b-ball players to clear the courts and get back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The B-School Gym | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

In public statements Gorbachev walked a fine line between encouraging reform and offering support for Erich Honecker, East Germany's aged and embattled leader. Wading into a crowd with characteristic aplomb, the Soviet visitor urged patience. "Don't panic. Don't get depressed. We'll go on fighting together for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Freedom Train | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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