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Word: elephantitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The idea that a concern for menus and hair styles can coexist comfortably with knowledge about the national debt and Nicaragua is a new one to many of the women who went to the convention, and the synthesis is as yet imperfect. At the Schlafly party, retired Lieut. General Daniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ... And Ladies of the Club | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Oh, sure. Plenty. Cowboy hats, sun hats, a couple of tricornes, several cardboard crowns, a red-white-and-blue beret. California wore black Zorro hats, and a delegate from New Jersey had an elephant head on his head-if that counts as a hat. One woman at the convention wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Modified crazy. Sunday night there was a party thrown by a woman who claims to have built the world's largest closet, leading to the world's largest bathroom. I inspected both and could recall none larger. The night before, I went to a charity ball attended by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

No weirder than people at a formal party anywhere, except perhaps the faces of the women, which looked as if they had been worked on for days. Couples glanced furtively at other couples, flashed grins, hugged decorously, waved modestly, hailed one another not too loudly. They paid only scant attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Otherwise, Director Jack Hofsiss (who staged The Elephant Man) has done little more than transfer the play cleanly to the small screen and keep our eyes riveted on the performers. In this case, that is enough. Though Tommy Lee Jones, as Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Maggie the Cat Is Alive! | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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