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Word: cravens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Powers (Lydia Lunch) finds the source of the trouble in Anthony Demmer (James Russo), a tirading troglodyte in a three-piece suit who has made a pathetic slave of the billionaire. While muttering such maxims as "Truth is a dead man's secret," Angel zigzags through encounters with craven executives, junkies and a malevolent dwarf bartender toward a fatal rooftop rendezvous with Demmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Be Young, Gifted and Broke | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Much of the credit for the new acceptance of adult braces must go to the invisible, or lingual, appliance, which offers an alternative to people who cannot face the world with a "tin grin." It was invented by Craven Kurz, 39, a Beverly Hills, Calif, orthodontist who once was a faculty member of UCLA Dental School. Some of Kurz's patients, among them actors, announcers and even Playboy Bunnies, had a professional investment in their smiles. "They were in a Catch-22 situation," explains Kurz. "They needed to have their teeth straightened, but they couldn't use conventional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ultra-Bite | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...arrests were conducted in an "orderly manner" and the majority were released on personal recognizance with no but charged, said Holyoke Police Officer John Craven. A few of those arrested chose to stay overnight rather than pay the $15 release fee charged in cover processing costs. Craven added. Arrangement will be on February...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: UMass Protestors | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...Kluckhorn, Perlmutter, or Ginsberg, the same character resurfaces. He is a semi-suave ectomorph who will chase any nubile starlet, whether it requires a descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Laughing Last but not Loudest | 11/18/1981 | See Source »

...Jimmy flew here election dawn to cast his own ballot, already informed of imminent failure; and in a greeting to his home-town supporters at the depot, the break in his voice seemed an understandable response to their continued loyalty in the face of so much bafflement, so many craven defections-"I've tried to honor my commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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