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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stachtiaris] was losing, wrestling really scrappy, but then he hit that throw and got the guy on his back," Scott Beck said. "It was awesome. He got me psyched for my match and it pumped everybody...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Crush Yale, 28-8 | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Here it is, folks: the movie that hates its own audience. In mall-town America, a modest queue forms at the local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Neighbors | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Been Lonely Too Long | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

North's strategy, it seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top-Secret Strategy | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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