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Word: broads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kissinger explained broad historical concepts that interested Nixon but was careful not to bore the President with excessive detail. "A Secretary should never allow himself to be put in a position where he opposes his President in front of others in a meeting," says Kissinger. Silence or deferral of the issue is the ploy of restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Learning the Preferences and Quirks of Power | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...When the Riviera signed Dolly Parton for a widely publicized $350,000 a week in 1979, every other entertainer in town put a call through to his agent. As Jenkins remembers it: "Every other performer with an ego the size of the Astrodome said, 'If that big-bosomed broad is making that kind of money, I should be too.' " Two years ago, the bubble burst: for only the second time in its 50-year history as a gambling resort, Las Vegas felt the effects of a national recession. Now, even if they do attend a show, too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Are the Stars Out Tonight? | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...lakefront. He wanders among white Victorian frame houses, all cooled by one or several levels of spacious front porches. Spaciousness was an easeful 19th century preoccupation, at least among the prosperous middle-class citizens who could afford to come here (by lake steamer in those days) and enjoy the broad verandas and 20-ft. ceilings of the Hotel Athenaeum, a splendid old yellow-and-green ark that did and still does offer two desserts with each meal. And it was a spaciousness of mind that made a summer of music, lectures and dramatic readings seem exciting, an attitude that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Culture's Front Porch | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...book makes two broad arguments on behalf of defense attorneys who exploit constitutional violations to clear their clients. The first is the traditional, liberal line: Someone's got to keep government prosecutors honest, by preventing them from, say, introducing unconstitutionally obtained evidence to convict defendants. When government is a lawbreaker, the argument goes, there can be no respect...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Dershowitz on the Stand | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

...Summer Night set to Mendelssohn and against a backdrop of nature photography, this lush film marks a partial return to Allen's earlier style. Working again in comedy, the veteran filmmaker has abandoned the subtlety of his more recent creations, but if the majority of the humor is broad, it is also notably less bitter than in his earlier movies. The impotent, unattractive hero and his bevy of shallow beauties are gone...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Sex on a Summer's Night | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

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