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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here, the disasters of war are at home. The Bronx veterans' hospital where Ron is sent to recuperate is an open sewer teeming with rats, drugs and whores. Back in Massapequa, Ron is now the flinching veteran used as a prop for patriotism, and family life is a ceaseless, sickening...

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

The Mapother home was now largely a tight sorority in which Tom served as father, brother and friend. "Having grown up with women, I trust and believe them more than men," he says. "I love women. I love the way they smell." Today Cruise is just as close to Mary...

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

The two-week vacancy at the top was a painful symbol of the network's mounting woes. Dethroned from its No. 1 spot in the Nielsen ratings by NBC during the 1985-86 season, CBS has lately sunk to a feeble third place. Its ratings for the November "sweeps" were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Days Of Distress at CBS | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

One obstacle a married movie star must overcome is the time he spends away from his wife. (Another annoyance is tabloid tales of imminent splitsville, and Cruise has heard those too.) But Cruise and his wife, actress Mimi Rogers | (Someone to Watch Over Me), spend as much time together as...

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

Slumps, of course, are made to be broken. ABC jumped from nowheresville to first place in the mid-'70s, and NBC was a sorry No. 3 before Bill Cosby helped boost it to No. 1 in the mid-'80s. But CBS may be in more desperate straits than either of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Days Of Distress at CBS | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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