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Word: guessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through drug problems of her own and gives her protagonist the kind of humor born from pain, anger and a strong will to live. The narrative voice is a bit like Holden Caulfield playing the Borscht Belt: "I'm a flash and the world is my pan." And: "I guess that's how guys are thoughtful in the '80s -- they accompany girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic. But not before Fisher, who once expected to be remembered only as Star Wars' Princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Aug. 24, 1987 | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...vision has sprouted in my brain. But I guess I should change tenses now. I finally did it, you see. I really wouldn't have on my own. But a friend from home came up this week and did the tourist...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Graduation and Glass Flowers | 7/31/1987 | See Source »

...said, 'I did not know it, and had I known about it, I would have stopped it.' That's the totality of it." Confronted with the White House statement, Poindexter calmly stuck to his story that Reagan would have approved his decision. "People can draw their own conclusions, I guess," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Admiral Takes the Hit | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...ecstatic over finding a pair of $47 shoes in a discount outlet, and has owned just four cars in the past quarter- century: a Rambler, two Plymouths and the current 1981 Dodge. "My wife says I'm the most uncomplicated man in the world," Dukakis admits. "I guess I am." Even his 83-year-old mother says of him, "What you see is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Economic Uplift | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...palship; John promotes and shields the family star. Still, Dad must wonder when the cocoon becomes a cage. Last year, after a concert in London, Whitney joined the crew at the local Hippodrome. "I was nervous," he recalls. "At one point I spotted her on the dance floor. 'Guess what, Daddy,' she said, 'I've been dancing!' And she proceeded to dance until 4 in the morning. I almost cried, realizing that for three years she hadn't had the chance to act like a teenager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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