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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOUR QUESTIONS to keep in mind when you watch the 59th Annual Academy Awards at 9 p.m. Monday on ABC: Who's gonna win? Who deserves to win? Who doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning? Who would you choose if you could vote for whoever the heck you wanted...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: And the Envelope, Please | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...tell, they're all small), has the juice of comic originality in him. In jail with Hi, one convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...circus of sleaze didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...Mouse business going on in our athletic department." Two weeks ago, when S.M.U. was completely banned from football this year and limited to just seven road games next year, Clements was asked whether, while serving on the university's board, he had ever approved payoffs to athletes. His reply: "Hell, no. Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Payoff, Hike! | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...world. So it was last week that on the appointed day several thousand students gathered in the streets of Seoul to mark the final passage of Park Jong Chul, a 21-year-old student who had died during a police interrogation. What followed was more like a descent into hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Onslaughts of Force and Fury | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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