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Word: canvasful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollywood wants to paint an anecdote on a $40 million canvas. The Brits, in their strapped-for-quid, post-David Lean days, toil to see how many angels can dance on the head of a penny. For perhaps a tenth of Black Rain's budget, Queen of Hearts lays out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pigstruck | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

On this day, the other side is not shooting back, so only a handful of Pakistanis man machine guns, to ensure that no Indian reconnaissance helicopter passes unchallenged. Blue sky forms a stunning canvas for the cathedrals of snow-laden mountains topping 20,000 ft., including K2, the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Himalayas War at the Top Of the World | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

None of this bothers Foreman, who KO'd 42 opponents in compiling a 45-2 record. He is all vigor and determination these summer days, slugging at the bags and straining on the iron. This is a new Foreman, he is quick to advise: "Forty is no death sentence; age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

LANDS' END. The largest of the three, Lands' End posted revenues of $456 million for the twelve months ending last January, an increase of 35% from the previous year and not far from the $580 million in sales racked up in 1988 by L.L. Bean, still the captain of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chic Is in The Mail | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

The catalog offers stylish variations on some familiar themes in American sportswear. Besides selling a garden-variety pocket T shirt ($12), J. Crew offers a prewashed (or "weathered," as the catalog puts it) T shirt for $24 in 15 different colors, including watermelon, tangelo and mango. Other characteristic items: Shaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chic Is in The Mail | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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