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Word: lied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's problems lie chiefly in the script itself. Lengthy jokes about condoms and parodies of Morton Downey, Jr. (one skit called "The Morton Downey Family Show" is a depiction of what "Leave it to Beaver" would have been like with Mort as Ward Cleaver) have been done too many times to be funny anymore. Script problems combined with poor editing lead to skits that come off as stale and cliched...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Sickness with a Cure | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...strange dream last night. It was about some blonde-haired guy in a green-and-white basketball uniform taking a last-second shot from the three-point line in a palace somewhere near a city that sounds lie Benoit in a state that looks a lot like a mitten...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Bark Has a Great Deal of Bite | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

While Pickens is now Koito's largest shareholder, analysts doubt that the Texan can take over the company. Reason: most of Koito's shares lie firmly in the hands of corporate allies who rarely sell their holdings. Since Japanese companies are not allowed to own their own stock, Pickens might try to sell his stake to one of Koito's allies. The Texan claims he simply saw Koito as a company with potential for improvement. Says he: "We want to work with Koito. New blood often helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKEOVERS - -: T. Boone's Tokyo Fling | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...third of its 368 million acres are already designated as national parks, wildlife refuges and forests, and thus protected from development to varying degrees. But it is practical to increase the size of official wilderness areas, where development of any kind is prohibited, since most of these areas already lie within existing parks and forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Two Alaskas | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...forget Vietnam is to forget the fallible capacity we share with all mankind," said Sheehan, whose noted book A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam chronicles U.S. mistakes in the Southeast Asian war through the story of an American officer fighting there...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Prize-Winning Author: Recall Vietnam's Lesson | 4/12/1989 | See Source »

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