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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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If nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Jane, Amid Turmoil | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Banality is a security blanket for Frank. He has been playing the standards in a routine fashion for years, stitching the songs together with chipper- inane prattle as featureless as his musicianship. He's just a guy supporting his offscreen wife, kids and mortgage in a way he finds more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finally, A True Character Comedy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

By transforming their act, Susie of course changes the brothers' lives. To deal with her, they finally have to confront themselves and a relationship based far more on shared genes than on common ideals. The wary way in which she and Jack circle in on a relationship is one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finally, A True Character Comedy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

America's retailers have precious little to cheer about these days. Many of the best-known U.S. department-store chains are up for sale. Garment sales have been stagnant, and profits are squeezed. But then there is Donna Karan, a women's-clothing designer whose creations send department-store executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Style for the 9-to-5 Set | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

On the concrete wall of an underpass on Rakoczi Street in Budapest, someone has scrawled in black crayon DOWN WITH COMMUNISTS. Two years ago, such a sign of opposition would have been quickly removed by Hungary's Communist rulers. Now the graffiti not only survive, but the Communists are saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Now You See It? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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