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Word: fairings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...While no one has gone so far as to disinter Monroe's body, the media, the fans, the flesh mongers and the merely curious will not let her rest in peace. When the new Madonna pumped her muscles and pumped some life into the old Marilyn image, both Vanity Fair and Life gave it cover story coverage. In Paris, where Americanisms are snubbed and snuggled at once, there is an entire store devoted to Marilynobilia. Noting the phenomenon, Time Magazine voted Marilyn the Liveliest Spirit...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Searching for Norma Jeane | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...turned America schizophrenic. Suddenly we were a nation split between left and right, black and white, hip and square, mothers and fathers, parents and children. For a nation whose war history had read like a John Wayne war movie -- where good guys finish first by being tough and playing fair -- the polarization was soul-souring. Americans were fighting themselves, and both sides lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...European Community, the country's economic growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and a Seville world's fair that year to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The mood in Spain is distinctly bullish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Out for the Spanish Bulls | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...performance is to regional theater standards, ranging from fair to good. The Huntington's style puts quite a bit of weight on the actor's shoulders, and generally they dig into their melodramatic motivations with not a trace of self-consciousness. Particularly good is Gary Sloan, who keeps the part of Moe Axelrod from sliding into a hysterical morass of cliche and mannerism. How he can deliver lines to the woman he's in love with like "I wrote my name on you. I'm indelible ink" with a straight face is beyond me, but he does...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Theatre Like It Oughta Be | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

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