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Word: lovely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent most of his youth engaged in love affairs, traveling with friends and family and writing for himself. The rest of his time he spent recuperating from the epileptic fits and venereal disease that plagued him all of his life...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Getting Dragged Down by Too Much Detail | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...contradictions like this one--and Flaubert's refusal to marry, despite the fact that he had many lovers and professed himself "in love" several times--lie the mystery of the author's character which might have led him to identify with the ill-fated Emma Bovary...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Getting Dragged Down by Too Much Detail | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some of the grousing from the Old Guard of male Himalayan climbers that women aren't equipped for extreme-high-altitude climbing, complaints that have subsided for the most part into gossip about the undeniable problems that love affairs cause on expeditions. (Allison herself does some grousing on this subject, and she says that one of the reasons her 1988 expedition was successful was that everyone understood the concept of delayed gratification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...explained that it came from the top of Everest, and asked politely whether she could heave it through the studio window. "Of course," said Letterman. She chucked it with a good sidearm motion, and there was the familiar sound effect of breaking glass that Letterman fans have grown to love. Fade to commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Older people now do the things in ads that they do in real life: work, play tennis, fall in love, buy new cars. "They've rejoined the American family that advertisers show us," says Frankie Cadwell, president of Cadwell Davis Partners, a Manhattan ad agency. The bride in a commercial for New York Telephone, for example, is about 60. All of the discreetly nude models in ads for Lear's, a magazine for older women, are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is That You on TV, Grandpa? | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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