Search Details

Word: cars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...armored car and busloads of officers in riot gear helped ring the 48-acre Federal Detention Center outside Oakdale, a town of 7,000 in rural south-central Louisiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuban Prisoners Riot in Lousiana | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell under the path of a moving car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damned Gifts | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...Ruth and Lucille (Sara Walker and Andrea Burchill), the teenagers at the center of this adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel. One day in the 1950s their mother carefully deposits them with her hometown relatives in Fingerbone, Idaho. Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it. Her suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off The Cliff HOUSEKEEPING | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...indicated that the dollar's two-year drop is at last beginning to have an impact on the competitiveness of U.S. products. At the same time, consumers are finally starting to turn up their noses at the rising prices of foreign imports. Last week Porsche, the West German sports-car manufacturer, announced plans to cut production because of sharply declining sales in the U.S., where the company sells fully 60% of its output. Meanwhile, the Administration is continuing its efforts to force other countries to remove trade restrictions. The White House announced plans to increase tariffs on Brazilian imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Knife Must Fall | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...representative from the Harvard Square Avis said that for an added surcharge of $5 per day, students with a major credit card and a driver's license could rent a car...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: More Than 12,500 Flock to The Game | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | Next