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Word: career (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he is 15, Jeremy sees his reflection in a beach house and, runs toward the cliff in a fit of self-loathing, and jumps. His attempt at suicide is a failure, but he manages to break his leg in many places and put an end to his athletic career...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Despite Glimmers of Wit, A Novel That's Overdone | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Nothing, in short, about her prior career hinted that she could be as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucille Ball: 1911-1989: A Zany Redheaded Everywoman: | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers % of her daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz Jr., both of whom got started on Here's Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucille Ball: 1911-1989: A Zany Redheaded Everywoman: | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...have also contracted a terminal case of career anxiety. What will I do when college is over? What city do I want to live...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

When we arrived, we got yelled at for talking to strangers. So much for a budding career in journalism...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

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