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Word: bothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nose tilts, I should have played Howard the Duck." Sure, but Howard couldn't work his mouth so that when fashioned into a smile, it has the innocence of a shy Cinderella's, and when upended, it curdles into the sulk of a party animal no man should even bother trying to impress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mafia Princess, Dream Queen MARRIED TO THE MOB | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...observe a code but are not above grabbing a few crotches if people get in the way, Bush seemed back in his original element, where people play hard and rough but keep to certain rules among themselves. It is interesting that most Watergate and Church committee revelations seemed to bother Bush less than the idea of taping a fellow gentleman's conversation. "I mean that's against my moral grain, to be taping somebody. I can remember standing down here in this building ((the White House)) when I heard about the White House tapes, and felt -- betrayed means that somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...Black female pop-folk soloist, Woods inevitably invites comparisons with such singers as Joan Armatrading and Tracy Chapman. But she says, "That comparison doesn't bother me. I think my music is so different from what they do that those comparisons last maybe one or two songs...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Making Folk Music With a Hard Edge | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference. "There are supposed to be 900,000 scientific workers in Moscow. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union More Than Talk | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...involved says that Lackner supplied Hazeltine, through Parkin, with invaluable "market intelligence" on the Navy's needs for IFF gear, much of the information either internal or leaked before it was supposed to be made public. (Hazeltine denies receiving any inside dope.) Parkin, says TIME's source, did not bother to ask Lackner where he was getting his stuff; perhaps he did not want to know. Lackner acknowledges getting information about IFF from Berlin, but contends that he broke no laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beltway Bandits at Work In the Pentagon | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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