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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. It is like my writing about boating in a satirical way. Extremists are extremist, no matter what. They are always funny. There are people who think I am the James Watt of the animal-rights movement because I still wear leather shoes and eat the occasional McNugget. They may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with BERKE BREATHED: A Hooligan Who Wields a Pen | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Tears failed to save hotelier Leona Helmsley, 69, the "Queen of Mean," who once sneered that only "little people pay taxes." Imploring Federal Judge John M. Walker Jr. not to imprison her for tax evasion, Helmsley wept, "I am more humiliated and ashamed than anybody could ever imagine." The judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Judgment Day For Leona | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Some Freaks, like the author's previous collection of commentary, Writing in Restaurants, is a break from the demands of a difficult craft. It is also a chance for the playwright to mouth off and strike a number of disparate poses: the poker-playing resident of Vermont, the city boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Browser | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

The government's use of psychiatry for political purposes is particularly dangerous because it is a direct assault on the victim's mind. The problem is compounded by the inhuman, illegal conditions of detention in the special psychiatric hospitals, by the conformity and hypocrisy of our closed society and by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of an Activist | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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