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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alluding to the sometimes bizarre recommendations of feng shui masters, an ancient Chinese proverb states, "If you invite a geomancer into your house, you may as well start packing to move now." Hong Kong's Exchange Square building has managed to remain on its site -- with a few strategic revisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas How to Keep the Dragons Happy | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

To invite the Soviets to share the responsibility, and thus the rewards, of controlling the Persian Gulf would amount to the most astonishing voluntary abdication of a Western position in the postwar world. At least when the British ran out on their responsibilities in the gulf in 1971, they turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Necessary, a Superpower Acts Alone | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Playwrights Horizons has become probably New York's foremost showcase for new stage writing. Its second, smaller space is now home to Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three for A Two-Way Exchange | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Hart's fast-blooming friendship with Broadhurst was the stuff that every Washington power broker dreams of: a close association with the man who could be the next President. Although Broadhurst had limited political contacts outside Louisiana, he often traveled with Hart on forays through the South. On a Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Making contact was his problem: striking out incessantly got him benched for five weeks last season, but Davis reappeared for the last 93 games to shred the league (.381 in July) with 27 home runs, 71 RBIs and 80 stolen bases. He started not only to invite but to heed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hailing The First Eric Davis | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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