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Word: esteli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brilliant day in the spring of 1980, a stranger arrived at L'Estère marketplace in Haiti's fertile Artibonite Valley. The man's gait was heavy, his eyes vacant. The peasants watched fearfully as he approached a local woman named Angelina Narcisse. She listened as he introduced himself, then screamed in horror-and recognition. The man had given the boyhood nickname of her deceased brother Clairvius Narcisse, a name that was known only to family members and had not been used since his funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zombies: Do They Exist? | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Once she stopped to look at that charming sequined blouse, the game would be up. Whatever man stopped first would have a natural opening line--"Oh, c'est belle, c'est belle"--which would be enough to get his arm around her shoulders. If he happened to be under 16, he might poke her nipple instead, by way of expressing approval of the blouse. Or by then she might already have hung it back up, sighed, and strode out of range...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Ordinary People | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...limelight. He poses for profiles in magazines like Vogue and Success and appears in TV commercials for his Avis rent-a-car subsidiary. At his black-tie 60th birthday party last month, he and his wife Hillie, a former Miss Rheingold, played host to dozens of famous friends, including Estée Lauder, Alan King and Henry Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Lives | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...Adrian Stokes. Clark was a pre-Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded mandarin decorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Gentleman Aesthete | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...thinking of doing EST...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Union Dues | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

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