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Word: erasers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bach's music, however, has steadily grown in stature. It has even gone into space aboard Voyager 1 and 2 as an example of the best that human culture has to offer. Yet the contemporary image of Bach is, in its own way, as myopic as that of previous eras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach and Handel At the Wall | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

It is eerie how Madson several years ago seemed to prophesy events when he wrote about earlier eras: "For this was alien land, not only in physical appearance but in its harsh rejection of familiar custom; it forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Power of the Prairie | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

The most literal of the literalists are known as dispensationalists. They have devised elaborate systems of dividing history into divinely ordained eras. Reagan is among the millions influenced by this subculture, which is actively promoted by Bible colleges, seminaries, TV and radio preachers, and popular products of the Second Coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

So what was this? Direct Mail from the Great Beyond? An exhortation exhumed with Jackson's bodily remains? Unfortunately, the truth is not quite so tasteful. Two former members of Jackson's staff saw fit to lend their defunct chief's name and memory to the hard-pressed Gardner, perhaps...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Style Over Substance | 9/26/1984 | See Source »

NO ONE had ever doubted the importance of good looks and a smoothe style to political success, but the emphasis on this to the exclusion of other qualities is getting ridiculous--as the Senate campaign is Washington reminds us. Here, no movie star or pop singer was good enough--this...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Style Over Substance | 9/26/1984 | See Source »

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