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Word: helled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expressed "misgivings about the cost-benefit wisdom" of the deployments. He scoffed at the idea of paying billions of dollars for 572 weapons. "That's a hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Arms Control: Behind Closed Doors | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...progress through emotional listlessness and political chaos. Sweetheart Like You, with a lovely and insinuating melody, takes the oldest cliche in the pickup book ("What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?") and works from a sexy come-on into an image of hell all the more effective for being surprising and funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tripping Through Old Times | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tripping Through Old Times | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Museums are vulnerable places unless you have a guard in front of every piece," said Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Director of the Peabody Museum. "You try like hell to do as much as possible...

Author: By William G. Foulkes, | Title: Jewelry Stolen From Semitic Museum | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

...drivin' 90" and then wallpaper his bathroom with last night's dinner. His enactment of a heroin addict killing himself with a fix is no joke; it is a flat-out, Oscar-time horror show. Pryor starts out showboating: "They say, 'You goin' to hell.' I say, 'I been there. Had so much fun they kicked me out.' " But by the end he is supine on the stage, simulating death throes so graphically it could scare any street kid straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chapter Three | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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