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Word: dad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though I do all that fishing, playing, attending concerts and studying. I still have time for a Dogs hockey, game. I live my own life, but I think the hockey, players are great and I even got some of their autographs last year after Lake Placid. I asked my Dad about Duluth "fading" and people moving. He said, "We moved to Duluth 5 years ago because Duluth is fast becoming a service center for the area. It is a regional medical center, banking center, education center, and still has a lot of grain and one shipping, with so many natural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Nick... Mail From Duluth | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...most provocative territory in the Nabokovian universe remains the convolutions of the brain. In the final play, The Grand-dad, this century's refugees are replaced by a French nobleman whose good fortune helped him escape the guillotine in 1792. Decades later he runs into the frustrated executioner, now a senile gent determined to rectify the accidents of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamesman the Man From the U.S.S.R. & Other Plays | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...remember exactly how excited I was. I've seen that same look in younger eyes." For perspective, he has several devices, but his most effective helper is the small, bespectacled clubhouse boy, Joey Moss, who has Down's syndrome. "I grew up around it," Gretzky says. "My dad's sister is mentally retarded. I love Joey, I love to shake his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles was not at all what you might expect: "Everyone we met there was very down-to- earth, very reasonable, very real." Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yuppies Under the Skin | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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