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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play this game, begin by assuming that your income will not change, then retrieve your 1985 AGI (adjusted gross income: line 32 on your last 1040). Plug that figure into the first box. In the first part of the game, add back items that were previously deductible to arrive at your probable 1988 AGI. Then subtract the deductions still permitted. This will yield your new taxable income. Multiply that by 15% or 28%. Like any game, this one has both winners and losers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the All-New 1040 Game | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...wrong, for this is pig racing, run on an 85-ft. sawdust oval track, and the porkers do not dawdle: the swiftest swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porcine Pacers: Pig races pack 'em in | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...Wyeth finally referred to the cache in an interview with Art & Antiques (see box). That summer Betsy met her husband at the airport in Rockland, Me., and as their eggplant-colored Stutz Blackhawk negotiated the trip homeward, Wyeth told her his story. "I remember the dip in the road," Betsy says. "He said, 'Darling, I have something to tell you. I've given an interview to an interesting man from Art & Antiques. I mentioned some paintings that no one knows about. And that's not fair to you.' And he told me he had been doing a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...group has set up shop in the Bright HockeyRink, and Walker's office is the ticket box whichdirectly overlooks the site of the big concertless than a month away. It is obvious the officeis temporary; Walker says as soon as the show isover, he will start work on his nextproduction--the International Special Olympicswhich will take place next year. But now his mindis on another show. Staring out his window, Walkersays, "I think people are going to enjoy thisshow...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: From the Olympics To Harvard | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

What is America's biggest regional repertory company, employing as many as 63 actors to mount a dozen productions for a total of 676 performances a year? What company features three spaces ranging from a stripped-down, experimental "black box" and a handsome conventional auditorium to a 1,173-seat outdoor Elizabethan playhouse, closely modeled on the Fortune Theater built in London in 1600? What company annually attracts more than 300,000 playgoers, 90% of them from more than 150 miles away? What company won a 1983 Tony Award and drew the American Theater Critics Association convention to view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Only 2,500 Miles From Broadway | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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