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Word: grail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most actors tell it, success is the Holy Grail, achieved only after pain, struggle and years spent waiting on tables between auditions. Kate Nelligan, on the other hand, has to think of other conversational gambits. To her the Grail came parcel post, wrapped in bright holiday paper and crowned with a bow the size of a best-acting award. She has, in short, never had to pant after a part and rarely received so much as an unkind word from a reviewer. What she has experienced is the acclaim of the London critics, and after her new play, David Hare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Grail Came Parcel Post | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...good old days, you rounded up a bunch of your buddies after a long night in Lamont and--like a band of medieval knights seeking out the holy grail--you found your way up Mass Ave., turned right at the Long Funeral Home and...got lost. Fortunately, you found a ragged stranger, approached him. "Would you tell me," you asked with a gleam in your eye, "how to get to Steve's?" The stranger always knew...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: We All Scream | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

...pleasure, and possible frustration. "A lot of women are going to be upset if they can't find it," says Midge Wilson, a social psychologist and a firm believer in the G spot. Adds Marriage Counselor Marion Holtzer of Chicago: "It's going to be like the Grail." Concludes Therese Baker, chairman of DePaul University's sociology department: "It's less interesting whether the Grafenberg spot is there than that people want to search for it." That is what The G Spot's authors surely can bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: In Search of a Perfect G | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Woodhouse Way, Woodhouse (2) 3. Living, Loving, and Learning, Buscaglia (6) 4. A Light in the Attic, Silver stein (4) 5. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Rooney (3) 6. Years of Upheaval, Kissinger (5) 7. How to Make Love to a Man, Penney (7) 8. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh (9) 9. Weight Watchers 365-Day Menu Cookbook, Weight Watchers International 10. The I Love New York Diet, Adler and Myerson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: May 3, 1982 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Apr. 26, 1982 | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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