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Word: horizons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hasn't had a Top Ten single, and he plays rock clubs as well as country venues. But his voice has offhand brute force when it has to bear down and unforced gentleness when it comes to business of the heart. He sings about familiar territory -- small towns and horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Earle: The Color of Country | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Love of Two Desk Lamps | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...within a few weeks of rolling out of Denver. Is it worth it? To paraphrase J.P. Sr.: If you have to ask, it's not. "You have a sense of travel in a train car," says Bauman. "In a yacht, what can you do? Go out to the horizon and turn around and come back. Here you can see America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rolling Along on the Rails | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...talking about children and ponies on the rise of the hill, going nowhere and everywhere, beckoned by cumulus crags and a horizon forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Cries of the Heart | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...that thirsty wasps have been furiously stinging people to get the moisture of their perspiration. Tempers have also been blazing: Charlotte, N.C., police report that there were 360 incidents in June of spouses wielding kitchen weapons and fists at one another. And there is no change on the hazy horizon; the high-pressure wall of air centered above the Mississippi delta that has kept temperatures soaring shows no sign of moving on. At week's end some relief was on the way. President Reagan ordered two Air Force cargo jets to ferry hay from Illinois to starving cattle in South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat Wave: The Parched, Scorched South | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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