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Word: characterizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

For 32 months it has been billed as a national unity coalition, but the two wings of the Jerusalem government last week displayed little evidence of anything approaching harmony. "Perverse and criminal!" cried Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' proposal to convene an international peace conference in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East So Much for National Unity | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Yet Kesselman proved so elusive that at times Inspector John Stafford felt as if the character he was tracking were more fictional than real. Stafford, who works for the U.S. Marshals Service, spent 3 1/2 years looking for Kesselman in connection with British charges of cocaine trafficking and money laundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking A Byte Out of Crime | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Willy Russell's Rita was a risky choice for Steppenwolf and the two performers, Austin Pendleton and Laurie Metcalf: audiences were likely to have vivid memories of the 1983 film that won Oscar nominations for Michael Caine and Julie Walters as a drunken, shambling university teacher and his bright but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three for A Two-Way Exchange | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

In its long sojourn underground, subsisting on sap in tree rootlets, the cicada nymph passes through five growth stages, or instars, each of which ends with the insect throwing off its carapace. About two months before it is ready to emerge, the nymph tunnels its way upward, lying at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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