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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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It isn't Basinger's fault that her character is so dull. Sam Haam and Warren Skaaren, who wrote the screenplay, don't seem to have much interest in elevating women beyond the level of comic-book bimbos.

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Comic Book Justice Strikes Again | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

While it is possible that on his deathbed young George beseeched coach Knute Rockne to win one someday for the Gipper, it would have been more in character for Gipp to want to get $500 down on the streptococci. Myths, legends and lies are the beams and girders of games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

"Why don't the newspapers run whores' phone numbers?" Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight would like to know. But he is an excitable character. "They run odds and point spreads on all the games. Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution?" It is, judging from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

For an artist of Wilmarth's age there was nothing radical about steel. It was the bronze of modernism, the normal substance of constructed sculpture for the past 60 years and more. What was unusual was his decision to combine it with glass and thus make transparency, as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poetry In Glass and Steel | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

But it is the association of glass with steel that gives his work its peculiar evocative power. Wilmarth worked the glass, bending it discreetly and etching it with hydrofluoric acid. This frosted the panels and brought out their color, which varied from a cold ice green to a soft, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poetry In Glass and Steel | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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