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Word: cusses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone should know by now, and too few seem to remember, very little in this world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lethal Leaks | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...June issue, cover dominated by a man in a white jumpsuit and a yellow hard hat cradling a machine gun, features research pieces on dozens of new lightweight automatic rifles, and articles sporting titles like "Death in the Delta." The letters columns ("Flak" and "Cuss and Discuss") carry wide-ranging opinions on men and munitions. Larry Loper, of Sugar Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, marrying one of its dancers, and allowing a conventional style of portraiture, often as insipid as the $3 million Acrobat sold to Japan in last week's Garbisch auction, to alternate with a highly decorative form of cubism. "Decorative," of course, is no longer a cuss word, and his best flat-pattern cubist paintings of the early '20s, with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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