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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sudden sense of vacancy, of eternity, in Robert Kennedy's eyes on the floor of the Los Angeles hotel pantry. That vacancy, almost exactly halfway through the year, seemed to break the year's back. Nothing good, one thought, could happen after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Introduction | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

...conclusion of his speech, in which he lambasted the move to diversify the curriculum at Stanford as tantamount to an attack by barbarians, he opened the floor to questions...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...Fine Arts Library reading room and offices will take up the first floor of the building, while the second floor will house exhibition galleries. Additional offices and classroom space will fill the third floor, according to a statement released by the Harvard University Art Museums...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: University Plans Spring Arts Programs | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

Dark Habits: a chanteuse brings her boyfriend to her Madrid apartment, where he ODs on heroin and dies. What Have I Done to Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Barbara's humor is clever, Bush's can be prep-school puerile. Several weeks ago, at a private dinner at the Chinese embassy, the President-elect brought a novelty gag, a dollar bill attached to a long fishing line that appears to be free for the taking on the floor. When a waiter went for the bait, Bush quickly snatched it out of reach. Bush and his host, the Chinese Ambassador, found the gag great fun. Barbara, whose humor tends to be verbal, rolled her eyes and turned to the Ambassador: "You're going to have your work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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