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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I suppose I am all of those things, but we never invite somebody on to demonstrate condescension -- or condensation. If somebody comes on and is a bonehead and is loafing through an interview, I resent that, and maybe I will then go after them. But if you come on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

For O'Toole, director Lean was an inspiring teacher. "David doesn't play God," he says, "or if he does, he shares his godship. There wasn't a setup that he didn't invite me to look at through the camera. When he was editing, I'd sit on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peter O'Toole's Yardstick | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Most vintage Dali was painted before his 35th birthday in 1939. In these canvases, like the familiar The Persistence of Memory, 1931, we are looking down the wrong end of the telescope at a brilliant, clear, shrunken and poisoned world whose deep mannerist perspective and sharp patches of shadow invite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salvadore Dali,The Embarrassing Genius | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

In mid-January, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop house dining halls sponsored 1950s theme dinners advertised through posters and fliers. The notices included statements intended to evoke nostalgia and invite students to return to a time described as "care-free". After receiving complaints about the event from students, Hernandez...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Dining Workers Downplay Insensitivity | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

POLAND Never Say Never In a surprise move, the regime proposes legalizing Solidarity The turnabout was breathtaking. As the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party met in Warsaw last week for an often bitter session that lasted until 3 a.m. the second day, General Wojciech Jaruzelski and several of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Never Say Never | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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