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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The author's definition of a free minute covers a lot of ground. Friends note that if Irving grows abstracted in company, the chances are he is mulling a plot twist or a change in his phrasing. He is compulsive about making revisions. "I never feel something is finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

"With a pig's eyes that never look up, with a pig's snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

Deep-cover Nazi agent kicks off his covers and must try to pull them up over him again-at least until the submarine picks him up, and he can get back to Germany with the Allied invasion plans. Donald Sutherland plays the spy, code-named Needle, and Kale Nelligan is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 10, 1981 | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

In November 1980, residents of the Denver suburb of Northglenn began noticing the pungent smell of gasoline throughout their homes. Explosions began lifting 200-lb. manhole covers off the ground. An investigation showed that the gas had leaked from the underground tanks of a nearby Chevron service station and found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs: Jul. 27, 1981 | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Henry V itself concludes a tetralogy that covers 24 years of English history. The three plays that come first--Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV--are far superior as works of art; but even third-drawer Shakespeare is pretty wonderful stuff. According to the standard view, Richard...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

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