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Word: burroughses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In autumn, the friends spare a thought for their children, particularly Lisa Callan (Beatrice Alda), the college-student daughter of the newly broken marriage. Depression has rendered her almost completely inarticulate, well beyond the reach of parental jolly-ups. Meantime, Kate Burroughs has reached the crockery-throwing stage. The unfailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Muddling Along in Middle Age | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

The hook worked its way in deeper when Carl also stumbled into science fiction. He was especially taken with the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote of sensuous princesses, six-legged beasts of burden, evil warlords and a Virginia gentleman named John Carter, who miraculously transported himself to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cosmic Explainer | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Last week, according to a source close to top Bendix management, members of the full board told Agee that Cunningham would have to go. The board includes such top business leaders as Burroughs Corp. Chairman Paul S. Mirabito, G.D. Searle President and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Equitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bendix Battle | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

New Hampshire, the only state in the union with no sales or broad-based income tax, has been growing faster than any other Eastern state except Florida. More than one-third of its manufacturing labor force is now employed in technological industries. Exxon and Burroughs have recently bought land for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rebuilding Down East | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

There is, of course, another tune to New York. It is played on a cornet isolated from one of the George Gershwin songs in Manhattan and then carried above 96th Street and out to pockets of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where, alone, it sounds less like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York, It's a ... | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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