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Word: burroughses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the market for large computers there are no sporting rivalries like Coke vs. Pepsi, Hertz vs. Avis, or Heinz vs. Hunt's. It is only IBM against the field. Big Blue controls almost 63% of the worldwide market, while an assortment of relatively puny competitors gets the rest. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Dance. Don't Ask Me | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps her most interesting effort was a two record collaboration with poet John Giorno and author William S. Burroughs entitled You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With. This album is unique in that it divides four sides of vinyl evenly among the three artists by including...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

The swagger and flippancy of that remark were qualities, shared and multiplied among a staff of intrepid writers, that made the show into a certifiable cultural phenomenon. S.N.L. was the first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying and Crashing in Mig Alley Saturday Night | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Unless, of course, Glynn is telling the gag as a shaggy-building story. He floods the eye and ear with bizarre images and improvised prose. It is as if the plumbing in a conventional novel had burst, swirling the styles of Gunter Grass, Nathanael West, William Burroughs, Stanley Elkin, John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off the Wall the Building by Thomas Glynn | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Depending on the results attained in December, Burroughs-Welcome will decide if further research should be undertaken on the effect of the compound on humans.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical Researchers Seek to Test AIDS drug | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

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