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Word: liz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the Caribbean cor respondents who resented the restrictions that kept them out of Grenada also disapproved of the scene they helped create. Said Liz Trotta of CBS: "Viet Nam was a real war for real correspondents. This is ridiculous, to see the press becoming part of the main story. Why should anyone expect the U.S. military to take 400 reporters with them on an invasion?" Commented Jim Minter, executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "A military operation like this is not the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Anybody Want to Go to Grenada? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...convincingly displayed than the minority rights resolution that was drafted by conference organizers but later rewritten and toughened by the one-third of delegates who were black, Hispanic, Indian or Oriental. The revised version was carried with virtual unanimity by delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: 1977: What Next for U.S. Women: Houston & The National Women's Conf. | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...best friend Liz, a model whom I met during my first month in New York, once said something which put everything into perspective for me from that moment on: "You go to the grave alone." A cliche, certainly. But said in the right way, at the right time, and by the right person, this meat-and-potatoes statement has since served as my best companion during times when I've been obsessed with the opinions of others or afraid to take a chance at something for fear of failure. The most useful insight of my life, which was also...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: There and Back Again | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...films, two aging men without wives mope about the past; in the other, two aging women without husbands mope about the future. The characters all need rescuing. But forget the stories, here is a pair of pairs! Larry and Jackie (Olivier and Gleason), Liz and Carol (Taylor and Burnett). And what is unusual, apart from seeing such faces in made-for-cable movies, is that the predictable casting is reversed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Surpassing Pair of Pairs | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...entitled to change her mind. And so last week Taylor, 51, announced her engagement to wealthy Mexican Lawyer Victor Gonzalez Luna, 56. He will be husband No. 8. To mark the occasion, Gonzalez Luna presented his intended with a 16½-carat sapphire surrounded by tiny diamonds. So forget Liz and Dick; until further notice, make it Liz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 22, 1983 | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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