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Word: grooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of all this, Huston decides to stage a hilarious wedding for a visiting pal from Hollywood. But to state that the plot concerns a bride and groom is like saying that Moby-Dick is about fishing. Bradbury's latest effort is really a fond look back at his year of living dangerously. That was the time when hangovers, lies and fatigue were balanced by workmen's compensation: good talk, new friends and material for the most entertaining book in a distinguished 50-year career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year Of Living Dangerously | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer. Even Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancing On Graves | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...experts view Iacocca's failure to groom a successor from within as perhaps his greatest managerial shortcoming. "Chrysler should never have gone outside the company," observes Eugene Jennings, a management professor at Michigan State University. Even after Iacocca nominally retires, predicts Jennings, he will try to cling to power through his chairmanship of the executive committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Automobiles: Jockeying for Position | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...show that happens to have comedy." Leno is adept with the comedy; the guests are a problem. While Leno is peerless as a monologist, his interviewing is still amateurish. He sometimes seems like a guest on his own show, polite and admiring -- an usher at the wedding, not the groom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

These marriages merit mention because of their connection with children. The bride and groom of the wedding I attended met at the annual January "March for Life" in 1990. (Two years ago today.) Both, obviously, are committed anti-abortionists. They are marrying young, but they have considered their options long enough and seem ready to start the fusion of two lives which marriage entails...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Harvard 'Caring' Destroys Personal Worth | 1/22/1992 | See Source »

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