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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latecomer to the Saab wooing game, which began when Ford started courting the company earlier this year. After the collapse of those negotiations, auto-industry analysts expected Italy's Fiat to be the winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYOUTS: Saab Lands a Rich American | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...laps, Cruise sees a dime, stops on it and emerges from the Lumina to say hello to a visitor. He extends a hand and flashes the million-dollar smile -- or, to judge from the worldwide take of his past four movies, the $1.035 billion smile. He points to the car and asks, "Want to go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...many of his films provide the perk of being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race-car driver in his next movie, Days of Thunder, a spin-off from Cruise's latest perilous hobby. But for Born on the Fourth of July he faced a different challenge: spending almost a year sporadically in a wheelchair, as Ron Kovic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Watch Over Me), spend as much time together as possible in their New York City apartment and visit each other when they are filming in far-flung locations. Cruise says it helps to have a wife in the business: "It's like trying to explain how driving a race car feels. You can't do it. They've got to get in the car themselves. I need someone to understand what I'm doing, so I get good input, so I'm not in it alone." But Rogers, 34, is also, obviously, another crucial woman in Cruise's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Keep the Change chronicles the cross-country escapades of Joe Starling, a blocked painter who endeavors to "put his old life to an end" by stealing his girlfriend's car and setting out from Florida to reclaim the Montana ranch left to him by his father. As the plot progresses to its ironic denouement, Joe courts his teenage sweetheart, rekindles a love affair with the land and comes to terms with some family ghosts -- both dead and alive. Like most McGuane protagonists, Starling is at a gallop between his past and future, an existential cowboy with good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOM MCGUANE: He's Left No Stone Unturned | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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