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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The killer T cells are relentless. Docking with infected cells, they shoot lethal proteins at the cell membrane. Holes form where the protein molecules hit, and the cell, dying, leaks out its insides. To ensure that the cell and its viral occupants are destroyed, the killer T cells then deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Offsetting this intensity are ludicrously campy high school scenes featuring girls who look and dress like 28-year-old hookers. They taunt Carrie in a highly unfeminine fashion that might be more plausible if they were jocks abusing a classmate perceived as a sissy. Rock Star Darlene Love, playing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Getting All Fired Up over Nothing CARRIE | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

"It was a time of dread," reads a legend at the start of George Lucas' new epic. Surely it was. We speak not only of the dour Middle Ages in which this sword-and-sorcery film is set but of the late 1980s, when Lucasfilm hit its dark age, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Out WILLOW | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

At week's end strike leaders and shipyard managers in Gdansk entered into church-mediated negotiations. While pay raises and amnesty for strikers were discussed, the effort seemed designed primarily to save face on both sides. Whatever comes of the talks, Poland still faces grave challenges ahead. The government has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Duel of the Deaf | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

When the news broke last week that Nancy Reagan regularly consulted a woman astrologer about the President's schedule, reporters immediately scrambled to discover the mysterious seer's identity. Who was this "Friend" from San Francisco who had so much influence in determining when the President of the U.S. would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nancy Reagan's Astrologer | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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