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Word: contentedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Of course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Through most of an eventful and extraordinarily successful life, Henry Luce--the co-founder of TIME and its undisputed leader for nearly 40 years--was not a wholly contented man. He was unsuccessful in his marriages; intermittently estranged from members of his family; frequently dismayed by the directions in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History: To See And Know Everything | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

As potential Quad improvements go, these are just the tip of the iceberg--other possibilities include a student-run Contented Workers Table Grape Plantation (complete witk big-screen TVs and roving masseuses in the fields) and a Quad militia, charged with the armed takeover and subjugation of Lesley College. I...

Author: By David S. Farenthold, | Title: A Few Immodest Proposals | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

Because of that one undeniable truth, Seinfeld finds himself in the curious position of facing, at a relatively tender age (43), a sort of retirement. In this regard, you could say Jerry Seinfeld is the Bill Clinton of comedy, the boy wonder as lame duck, if only, that is, Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's All About Timing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Eventually, Rice and Dahl became skilled, contented gardeners, enjoying contemplative weekends in the sun, raising a cornucopia of produce and preserving much of it for the winter. They turned their attention to cultivating friendships--becoming close friends with a nearby farm couple, joining a country club and getting to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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