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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waiting "patiently for me to finish talking with my undergraduate harlot and come on home so that she could get on with the job of almost killing herself." An apotheosis of erotic obsession is achieved by a character named David Kepesh, who is transformed into a 155-lb. female breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Serious Comic Writers | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...state study of employee ailments found, in addition to the skin cancer cases, ten cases of ovarian cysts, four of breast cysts, five of cervical polyps, eight of fibroids, 12 of anemia, five of tuberculosis, ten of pneumonia, 13.of bronchitus and 15 of hay fever...

Author: By Complited FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Shun Building After Cancer Reported | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...privately owned cars, taxis and buses travel at speeds previously unimaginable. Said Abbas Tavakkol, 38, a taxi driver: "It's wonderful. I wish gasoline rationing and the ban on private driving remain in force forever." Retorted his passenger, an elderly man pressing an attaché case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant taxi drivers' wishes." The shortage of fuel has made life uncomfortable for Tehran's 7 million people, but in the fervor of the war between "Islam and paganism," there are few complaints. An Iranian journalist sent the following report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tehran: Clean Air and Less Fuel | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...plane and absorbed in preparing his message. He has forgotten to remove the linen napkin tucked between the buttons of his white shirt (he always wears white shirts, usually adorned with a wide, solid-color tie; the color of the little RR monogram stitched under the left breast varies). His glasses-rarely seen in public, where he tends to use contact lenses-are partway down his nose, and his lips are pursed as he silently sounds out phrases from the speech before him. Something does not ring right to his acute ear. He pauses, changes a few words with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...shrines of American folklore. It was also boyish optimism that inspired Agee to make his clarifying gesture in the first place. A realist will always let bad enough alone, but a romantic cannot help himself. And to be fair, how was Agee to know that by making a clean breast of things, which is supposed to be good for the soul as well as part of the American way, he would be snatching disaster from the jaws of suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Letting Bad Enough Alone | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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