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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delay, though, could be costly. Warns Nakagama: "You might have another stock-market crash next spring if the Government doesn't do enough on the budget side. After all, if you are running at full employment, then what the hell are you doing with a $150 billion deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion - But Hope | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Then Hunter stepped into the glass slipper. "Why should I be nervous?" she recalls thinking as she walked into a Manhattan hotel suite to meet Jim Brooks and Bill Hurt. "There was no way in hell I was going to get this role." Within moments, Brooks thought otherwise. "She read her part like a dream," he says. "No, wait, I'm building legends here. She read better than a dream. She read like a gifted actress." And once this non-star got the part, she assumed a control and drive worthy of Jane. "The best thing in her is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Holly Hunter Takes Hollywood | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...funds to do with as we please. Why should we worry whether we spend the money on something that is 'necessary?' Were the pyramids 'necessary'? Was Vietnam 'necessary'? Were the rocks in front of the Science Center 'necessary'? Sometimes you just have to do something for the hell of it--kill some time, spend a few bucks...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Insanity Defense | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...bore witness most passionately in The Fire Next Time (1963), in which he declared that he was determined "never to make my peace with the ghetto but to die and go to Hell before I would let any white man spit on me, before I would accept my 'place' in this republic." He also proclaimed there his skepticism about the value of being "integrated into a burning house." And that, as Detroit and Newark soon showed, was what was coming next time. "White people in this country," he wrote, "will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bearing Witness to the Truth James Baldwin: 1924-1987 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...picaresque epic seems longer than its running time, and this one eventually begins wandering, like Jim, in search of an elusive climax of reconciliation. But this is caviling in the face of two splendid young artists: Bale, 13, who carries the character of Jim through four years of hell and puberty, and Spielberg, who again proves that he is our top picturemaker. He has energized each frame with allusive legerdemain and an intelligent density of images and emotions. He has met the demands of the epic form with a mature spirit and wizardly technique. Spielberg has dreamed of flying before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man-Child Who Fell to Earth EMPIRE OF THE SUN | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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