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Word: fonda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message is unpalatable, the alert political go-getter tries a captivating messenger. Or, in this case, three of them: Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek, who spoke to a Democratic congressional task force last week on the plight of economically pressed farm families. Journalists and onlookers jammed the hearing room to listen to the actresses who had played farm wives in The Dollmaker (Fonda), Country (Lange) and The River (Spacek). "It is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away," said Lange as she choked back her emotion and brought Fonda to tears. Warned Spacek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 20, 1985 | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...punk rocker intruding on an at home at Lady Astor's. Producer- Director George Butler catches many weirdly poignant moments, backstage and onstage, from a sport in which women declare their sexual independence by miming the physical self-absorption of the male jock. It's like a Jane Fonda workout carried to the edge of absurdity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Living in Hollywood for much of his life, Reagan might not have known that 12 million people--5.8 million of them Jewish--were, deliberately and systematically killed in the same war that John Wayne and Henry Fonda fought on the silver screen. That was over one-third of the Jewish population during World...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Throwing the Hatchet | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...snort, of woman- mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls who wouldn't be caught dead at a Jane Fonda Workout congregate to scream obscenities and pelt the wrestlers with hot dogs and ice cubes. For the few hours they spend together in a wrestling arena, the Perrier Set and the Boilermaker Brigade have something in common: synthetic blood lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...University and directs a youth training program. "I want to contribute to social change by being the last word behind a nonprofit organization," says Seale, 48. Where would the money come from? Believe it or not, from a cookbook, Barbecuing with Bobby, and possibly a barbecue video. "If Jane Fonda can drop 250,000 how-to exercise videos, why can't Bobby Seale drop a halfmillion of these things every barbecue season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: New Roles for an Old Cast | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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