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Word: heartbroken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Personally, I won't be heartbroken if they don't discontinue the issue. My favorite issue comes two weeks after the celebrated edition: when the publishers print all the love and hate mail over the playmates of the year...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Skinsuit Issue | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...pall which hung over the campus after the news of the catastrophe had spread, the manner in which an Oriental girl burst out crying when a picture of Christa McAuliffe flashed on the screen, the lounges filled with teachers and students and members of the staff: Attentive. Hypnotized. Heartbroken. Spellbound...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Tragedy for All | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

When Denis E. Cochran-Fikes announced at this spring's track banquet that he would not be back next year, "a lot of people were heartbroken," says men's track Captain Brad Bunney...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Moving on | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...pathetic, but only another Playboy model might find it tragic." Anyone who sees the movie will detect the narrowness of his statement. During the last scene, when Dorothy removes her clothes and lamely offers herself to her lunatic husband/captor, actress Mariel Hemingway (who portrays her) virtually redefines the word "heartbroken": Her eyes and posture convey the sudden wisdom, tragic in its belatedness, of a naive individual who finally realizes that she has not been loved at all, but only used. To dismiss Stratten's murder just because she journeyed into a corner of the world which most people find distasteful...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Exploiting the Exploiters | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...fans will think of it. I don't care too much. I hope they like it, but if they don't there is nothing I can do about it." Or would want to. No one in contemporary rock or pop can sound more enamored, or winsome, or heartbroken, in a love song than Linda Ronstadt. Singing the tunes on What's New, or even just talking about them, she still sounds like a woman in love: "It's like falling for a man. You can't not do it. He might be married or maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Linda Leads the Band | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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