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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Downstairs, on the funny line, is Cliff's other brother-in-law Lester, a sleek TV producer (played by Alan Alda in a gloriously fashioned comic performance). He offers Cliff a sinecure: filming a documentary that will make Lester look like a philosopher-king among the pompous nitwits who produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Postscript to the '80s | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

For years doctors have been stressing that all pregnant women should have intensive prenatal care. But last week the U.S. Public Health Service issued a report from a federal panel of experts that urged less prenatal care -- at least for some women. About 1.6 million of the nearly 4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prenatal Alert | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

In the past 20 years, Tibet's exiled leader, Tenzin Gyatso, 54, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. His nonviolent Buddhist philosophy and advocacy of a peaceful approach to determining Tibet's future would seem to make the 14th Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: A Bow to Tibet | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

At the Dalai Lama's headquarters in Dharmsala, India, news of the award prompted 1,000 exiled Tibetans to dance in the streets. "It is a victory for oppressed people everywhere," read an official statement. The Dalai Lama, attending a spiritual conference in Newport Beach, Calif., responded to the fuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: A Bow to Tibet | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

The timing of Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to East Germany could not have been more awkward. On the 40th anniversary of the country's founding as a separate socialist state, the government in East Berlin found itself utterly humiliated. Like storm-besieged dikes, the borders of the country had sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Freedom Train | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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