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Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the first hours of the accident, more than 400 passengers and crew members were pulled to safety in an exceptional rescue operation. The bodies of 51 people were recovered, but 84 others are missing and presumed dead. The toll made the mishap the worst peacetime ship disaster in the history of English Channel shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragic End for Day Trippers | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people. Outside, plastic snow falls steadily. In failing health, near the end of his career, John Huston is filming James Joyce's great short story The Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Even though Huston nearly died several times last year, no one connected with the film is calling it a valedictory. "I spent every moment of my childhood thinking he was going to drop dead any minute," says his daughter Anjelica Huston, 35, who plays the heroine, Gretta Conroy. "He's been brought to his knees in the past four years, but he won't lie down. This project is certainly close to his heart, but not because of any imminent decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Many are the untold secrets of the household. The last governess died mysteriously, and Miles' teacher did too. To complicate matters, she begins to hallucinate, seeing the images of the dead governess and teacher hovering around the children. She starts and screams for no reason, and all this within three days of arriving at the manor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

...that the source of meaning can be found in the author. It would imply that an individual unified subject exists and can elucidate the world around us. Since we all know that authors have nothing to do with texts, I don't matter anyway and I might even be dead. Consider me a collective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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