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Word: canvasful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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"There has never been anything like this built in 400 years," says Trump (he is thinking of the Vatican, ignoring, say, the Palace of Versailles) as he points to the hand-carved marble columns and the walls lined in Italian gold onyx and the ceiling moldings of 23-karat gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Next week, when Mississippi Burning expands from nine theaters to more than 500, moviegoers will get to see what all the shouting is about. For more than two hours, director Alan Parker splatters grotesque and gorgeous images on his large canvas. Indomitable black preachers lead services in the charred husks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

A. The canvas has greatly expanded. It involves the whole globe, including the sea depths and a large chunk of space. Weaponry has expanded the scale of destructiveness. But the uncertainty of war has not disappeared, and the tendency for things to go wrong has increased. Battles are still fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Admiral William Crowe: Of War and Politics | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

If you don't believe it, watch the big man in the Boer War trench coat. He feels a little out of place in the snazzy Royalton lobby because everybody else there is 44-going-on-22, wearing University of Sofia sweat shirts and $1,250 gazelle-skin bomber jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Nevertheless, it is strange that in the U.S., where every kind of primitive art from Nigerian to Alaskan has been exhaustively studied and consumed, so little attention has been paid to Aboriginal art. Something so old is very new -- at least in America. Hence the fascination of "Dreamings: The Art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Evoking The Spirit Ancestors | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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