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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors and lawyers come and go, sitcoms have hit the skids, and one day even Joan Collins may be just another question in Trivial Pursuit. But in the world of TV programming, crime nearly always pays. That axiom seems to be the watchword as the networks prepare to unveil their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Crime Pays in Prime Time | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

All the participants agree that their on-field behavior mirrors their off-field style. Says Zimmer: "We love competition. We love action and tension. All the guys I know in this business work all week, all weekend. Doing the job is a rush, and the Survival game is a concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Most Dangerous Game | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Suddenly a flatbed truck rolled into view, escorted by two motorcycle policemen and by lines of yellow-shirted marchers waving small yellow flags. Aboard the truck was a nearly 7-ft.-high, flower-bedecked bronze statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Yellow and Red for Aquino | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Where is the center of this thing? A man who learned how fast his legs could move because as a boy he outran cops in Harlem, who worked out in cordovan shoes on the F.D.R. Drive because his father was a cobbler and cordovans last? Does one watch the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Why We Play These Games | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

The rest of the audience and I were convulsed I wondered how to reply. A new list of salient points began to form I recalled my father's tale of a classmate and fellow resident of Massachusetts Hall in 1927-28 who, when irritated by the glare of a bare...

Author: By John B. Fox jr., | Title: Climbing On Board | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

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