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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of Fleet Street felt the Times had taken a dreadful drubbing. The Daily Mail suggested that the final deal could have been secured without "this magnificent yet monumentally ill-thought-out charge of the Times management light brigade." Rivals were also concerned that the Times's largesse would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Return of the Thunderer | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The Times newspapers put their pretax losses at better than $60 million but insisted that the lockout was the only way to ensure the future of the two publications. If the papers do survive, said Lord Thomson of Fleet, chairman of the parent company, "the cost staff-wise, money-wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Return of the Thunderer | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Charles builds a model of the house, furnishes it and plays moodily with a Laura doll, a husband doll, a daughter. In the state government office where he works (the state happens to be Utah, though not much is made of the fact, and the film's lo cation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Once the characters have been established, the screenwriters ease up. Alex falls in love with his married teacher-a closet Americophile amusingly played by Marie-France Pisier- only to become the butt of silly sex gags. Laura veers into a nervous breakdown that gratuitously breaks the movie's antic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Culture Gap | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

It does not exactly help him to melt into the background the way spies are supposed to, but then our undercover people have not been having much luck in that respect lately. Maybe he is supposed to symbolize something. Or not. Who cares?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flat Country | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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