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Word: decking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inconsistencies abound. The Joker falls into a vat of toxic slime that eats the skin off his body but doesn't damage his signature deck of cards; when he gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tape For Two:The dual-deck VCR arrives | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

When the announcer said that Princeton was leading Radcliffe by a deck after 200 meters, one of the Bulldogs said with resignation, "That means absolutely nothing. [Radcliffe] has the McCaggs...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Double the Skill and Success | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...wears imported jeans and Adidas sneakers, has richly furnished the three-room apartment he shares with his wife Tanya and son Sergei. A sleek, ebony-colored bookcase holds a Korean color TV and matching video system. Ivlev says he paid 1,000 rubles ($1,600) for a Panasonic tape deck. "And we have better food because we shop at the open market, where prices are higher," he points out. Is their bank account growing? "It's not our aim to save money," says Tanya. "We want to spend as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of the Luxe Life | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...confinement, the camaraderie is energizing. From memory Sutherland recites the poetry of his beloved Robert Burns, in the brogue of his native Scotland (he once played professional football with the Glasgow Rangers). Father Jenco takes the hostages on an imaginary tour of Rome and the Vatican. Anderson makes a deck of cards from paper scraps, and they all play cutthroat games of hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages The Lost Life Of Terry Anderson | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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