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Word: alle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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As a BBC-TV series, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil went gleefully over the top, pitying or despising all its characters. But comedy on the American plan can go soft, as Barr proved when she gave her abrasive stand-up-comic persona a sweetie-pie makeover for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warty Worm | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

At 10:55 a.m. last Tuesday, Vaclav Havel stepped from a silver Volkswagen Golf and, trailed by eight fellow members of the Civic Forum, proceeded to a second-floor conference room in the cream stucco building. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec opened the talks with a seven-minute statement outlining the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

A tube to Cruzan's stomach provides all the food and water that keep her on this side of existence. The cost of her care, $130,000 annually, is borne by the state (since she is not a minor, her parents are not held responsible for her debts). Doctors say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Right to Die? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wild Seed in the Big Apple: Garrison Keillor | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

The rebels recently dealt some major blows to Mengistu's troops, which are among the best-equipped in Africa, courtesy of $500 million yearly in Soviet aid. Tigre-led forces are 80 miles from the capital and may sever its links with the country's major port. The government is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: A Wounded People Starves | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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