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Word: glove (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he is a millionaire recluse who lives with a monkey and wears a single sequined glove, Michael Jackson qualifies. So does President Andrew Jackson, a card-carrying aristocrat who insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Rise of The American Oddball | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle. But then, Willow is a Star Wars without star quality, an Indiana Jones adventure with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Out WILLOW | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Lynn watches a youngster circle under a ball, stick his glove out and make the catch...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Little O's | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...They say the key to winning a pennant is having defensive strength up the middle. A team with good fielders at catcher, second base, shortstop and centerfield has a tremendous defensive advantage. Can you name the last team which had Glove winners at these four positions? (Take two points per player and two for the team.) Ten points...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: 1988 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

Ciavaglia got the puck up, but Muzzatti was able to get his glove on it and bat it away...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Michigan State Finishes Harvard | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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