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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone shrewd enough to make a living in the man-of-letters dodge knows that an occasional desk-clearing miscellany, a dustpan with hard covers, will be indulged between actual, seat-of-the-pants books. To E. (for Edgar) L. (for Lawrence) Doctorow's credit, he includes no commencement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Books | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

Not too surprisingly, "The Cotton Club" rambles along these storylines and several others while consistently failing to reach any dramatic climax, development or even coherence Coppola never investigates the dynamics of the gangsters world, even though "the power" changes hands several times during the film. Coppola presents the titillating moments...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: King Cotton | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

After more than a year of pleas, threats, deadlines and back-room bargaining with the Massachusetts state legislature, Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity decided enough was enough. Last week the judge took drastic steps to force the legislature to clean up polluted, malodorous Boston Harbor or risk ending a $500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Horror | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

"From the air," reported TIME'S Andrea Dabrowski, the only journalist on the mission, "the ravaged area looks like a surrealistic patchwork, with a few brick and adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Fire in the Dawn Sky | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Financial aid is given to 10 percent of the students and covers one half the cost.

Author: By Joshua L. Dunaief, | Title: Taking a Semester at Sea | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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