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Word: halfway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, about halfway through the movie something big happens--if you want to know what, go see the movie--that changes everything. Suddenly Costner, who has netted a job at the Pentagon, is pitted against his boss, Hackman, in a battle that may or may not affect national security...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: No Exit | 8/21/1987 | See Source »

...where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Red Sox Let a Star Slip Between Their Legs | 7/24/1987 | See Source »

Partly it is a matter of emotional scale. This is not a movie of halfway measures. The wicked are irredeemably wicked, the good unalterably good. No one is permitted to slip into anything a little more comfortable and up to date, like ambiguity or absurdism. And no one is permitted to loiter palely among his half-formed thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time, Space and the Joy of Evil JEAN DE FLORETTE | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...made the finals along with his friend. In the finals he thought his friend played better than he he did and he believed another girl performed still better. A second girl played halfway through the test music badly, regained her composure, and then went back through. Sample thought he had earned third place. The recomposed second girl...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: A Chicago Sampler | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Malta lies in the Mediterranean halfway between Western Europe and Libya, and its politics reflects its geography. Since Malta gained independence from Britain in 1964, elections have been decided between the pro-Western Nationalist Party and the Labor Party, which favors close ties to Libya and the East bloc. Now, after 16 years of Labor rule, Maltese voters have elected a Nationalist government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malta: Turning Back To the West | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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