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Word: lovely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, I immediately assumed that DuPont was being the quintessential opportunist. After all, any Republican would love to break the Democratic Party's grip on the poor and Black votes. Why not jump on the Jackson bandwagon and ride for all it's worth...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Compassionate Comparisons | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Mantle fertility clinic. She is a famous actress with a healthy sexual appetite, a trifurcate cervix and the desperate yen to bear a child. Desire stirs Bev's instincts; propriety tries to tamp them down. It is a dangerous move to admit someone besides Ellie into his secret life. Love for an outsider will distort the twins' delicate imbalance. They had been complementary halves of one identity: body and mind, | curiosity and compassion, sex and guilt, Don Juan and Don Knotts. Now the seesaw must tip from sanity to psychosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case of Brotherly Love DEAD RINGERS | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...character to another, weaving innumerable surreal symbols among them, as Waits struggles to decide whether the intensity and innocence of the unknown are lost or perverted in the star. The huckster squalls piano-bar ballads--I'm gonna hit the top, take New York, and hey don't ya love my band--Waits drives out his songs, pistol ricochets dubbed over the cracking of his boot heels, and Frank spins out his dreams...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Tom Waits: Making it Big | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...this summer's movie audience to think. But there is nothing religious about a movie, billed as the best baseball film ever, that starts out talking baseball and finishes up talking about the birds and the bees. Bull Durham was more concerned about Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon making love in a bathtub and then in the kitchen and then back to the bedroom. That's religious. But not in the religion of baseball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...scandal becomes public, Chicago is in shock. The possibility of actual players, the immortal heroes of the city, sacrificing their talent for a few quick bucks is unthinkable in the untarnished world of baseball. Yet Sayles succeeds in bringing his point across. Innocence will always tarnish, whether it be love, war or baseball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

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