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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway season's most acclaimed musical, Stephen Sondheim's fairy-tale adaptation Into the Woods, a smudged and hapless Cinderella repeatedly sings of her yearning "to go to the festival." She has no idea what to do when she gets there. In fact, she does not quite know what a festival is, and its reality could never match her glittering, if vague, expectations. But a festival sounds like the height of glamour and sophistication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Coney Island of the Mind | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...American service members who died in the Viet Nam War, eight were women. Last week, despite the fact that the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington lists all the dead without regard to race, rank or gender, the U.S. Senate voted 96 to 1 to build another monument at the same site to honor the women who served in Viet Nam. The proposed addition, a statue of a female nurse, still requires House approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: A Memorial Too Many | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...women's auxilliary club, while Daddy (Donal Logue) spends his reading the paper in his easy chair. Mommy wears a bright pink party dress, the kind that domestic ex-prom queens like June Cleaver and Donna Reed wore on TV sitcoms in the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, TV-sitcom theme songs play in the background to drive home the point of Mommy and Daddy's TV-perfect lifestyle...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Still Crazy After All These Years | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

Family members and friends of such victims probably regret, as Rowan should, the fact that the handgun ever was in the closet or on the bedroom table, so easy to reach at a moment's notice. Funny thing, the NRA never mentions these cases in its brochures...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: The Case Rowan Forgot to Make | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

...seems that "Poor Mike," as People has christened him, has been so distracted by his manipulative wife and mother-in-law, Ruth Roper (who, by the way, has sued Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield for infecting her with an undisclosed venereal disease--a fact SI deemed highly relevant to the Tyson story), that he hasn't been getting the proper amount of training for his bout with Michael Spinks tomorrow night...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women KO'd in Media's Ring | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

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