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Word: lincoln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project: "Carnegie Hall doesn't shake the skull as it did before." Summing up the negative reaction, Music Critic Leighton Kerner of the Village Voice declared, "New York City now has another Avery Fisher Hall," referring to the acoustically troubled home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in The Night | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Then there was Lincoln. He got a lot of good press after being shot, but I'm too squeamish for that type of thing and theater in Russia is nothing to speak of. Teddy Roosevelt? He lifted weights. Too tiring. Franky Roosevelt? He was big with economic reform. No zing in that...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: SOUND OF FURY: | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...childhood scrapbook. Main Street is lined with townspeople applauding as the baton twirlers, marching bands, basketball squads and quilting clubs make their way past. But the clapping abruptly stops as some bright red banners come into view. Adorning them are the faces of two heroes from history: Abraham Lincoln and Lenin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Amerika The Controversial | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Written and directed by Donald Wrye, whose previous TV movies include Born Innocent and Death Be Not Proud, the series plunks us into the middle of a small Nebraska community (much of the film was shot near Lincoln) and a cross section of citizens trying to cope with their repressive new society. Devin Milford (Kris Kristofferson), a former antiwar activist and candidate for President, has just been released after six years in a prison camp. Returning home, he finds his proud but disillusioned farm family hanging on to the last vestiges of their dwindling land. A boyhood friend (Robert Urich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Amerika The Controversial | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

First-year student Gary Ambro earned a portraitof Abraham Lincoln for the honesty in histhird-prize letter, which contains such candidstatements as, "not just another Harvard MBA, Istand for all that is right and good...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: B-Schoolers Spoof Cover Letters | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

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