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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage have been on a long trek of self-discovery." A native New Yorker, she performed in small theaters on both coasts before being Great-White-Wayed by Mike Nichols, who oversaw the new production. Goldberg's natural sense of humor did not find much to laugh at or learn from negative critics "who have assessed my work in New York. There is nothing in their works that can help me improve my performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1984 | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...contras, who are fighting a war the Reagan administration has admitted is unminnable. Forget the fact that American Monty paid for the mines that appeared magically in Member's harbors. Forget all that, examine Reagan's Latin American politics with the cool eye of realpolillk, and have a good laugh. No matter how you slice it, Reagan's handling of Nicaragua has been monumentally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Mistakes | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...watch it closely was to see what had confounded and beset Walter Mondale for months. As the President mesmerized the crowd of 5,000, Darman closely followed a text labeled "core speech." He noted every line that drew applause with an asterisk and every line that drew a laugh with the notation "HA." Happy faces glowed in the pink sunset. About the only tense listener was Dale Schuman, owner of the Magic Man costume and fun shop, whose job it was to release the balloons at precisely the right moment. Reagan sounded his final call to glory: "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goal: A Landslide | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...summation absentmindedly referred to "the policies of weakness of the last four years," as if he had traveled in a time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles are "recallable"; he meant the exact opposite. Reagan got a big laugh by deriding a TV ad showing Mondale on the deck of an aircraft carrier, which the President identified as the Nimitz; if Mondale's policies had been followed, said Reagan, "he'd be deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never have been built. Actually, Mondale would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast and Loose with Facts | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "I look at the inflation numbers and I laugh because I see my own costs going bonkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticker Shock Never Stops | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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