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Word: instanteously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captured by a particularly disagreeable Soviet officer while trying to aid the Afghan rebels, Rambo is recalled to primitive business as usual. There are, of course, low cunning, high explosives and much running around without a shirt, punctuated with other familiar gambits: torture scenes; the self-cauterization of, and instant recovery from, a wound large enough to stop an elephant; and a grimly preposterous two-man stand against a tank-led army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Muscles + Money = Excess RAMBO III | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl. But in an instant, a glint appears in his eye as he hatches yet another plan to tie the Senate in knots. Meet the other Jesse Helms, the wily parliamentary terrorist who has blocked civil rights legislation, held ambassadorships hostage and undermined treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...result of all these costs, Carrie barely had carfare home after its Broadway opening night. There was no contingency plan, just a hope against hope for generosity from the critics. When that failed, Gore, Librettist Lawrence Cohen and Lyricist Dean Pitchford started shopping for emergency investors to create an instant reserve fund. Landesman pondered stepping in with more cash from Jujamcyn but in the end decided not to underwrite even one additional week's losses so the search for investors could go on. Explains Landesman: "I would have put up $500,000, but I didn't see the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard football team recently garnered national headlines for its Ivy League championship season. But not every Ivy champion is guaranteed instant respect and admiration...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Perceptions of Ivy Sports and Athletes | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

Hachette, under Chairman Jean-Luc Lagardere, entered the U.S. market quietly, launching two joint ventures with Rupert Murdoch. The first, a U.S. edition of France's Elle fashion magazine, which made its debut in 1985, was an almost instant success (current circ. 850,000). Premiere, a movie monthly, also got off to a strong start (circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing with A French Accent | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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