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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sinclair said the man walked through the store and picked up a sweater. When she asked him if he wished to purchase it, she said, the man pointed at her what appeared to be a gun beneath his brown corduroy jacket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Bloom County," though funny in its commentary on 1980s culture, was basically "Doonesbury" with funny animals. By the looks of "Outland," Breathed is still playing in Trudeau's shadow. If you want artistic adventurism in the comic pages, look to Trudeau's talking cigarette or his personification of Old Man History. Or look to Zippy the Pinhead. Or look to Life In Hell. Or even to Calvin and Hobbes...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Spence has always been painted by hiscolleagues as a young man going places--quickly.His name has already been touted as a possiblecollege president at the University of Michiganand Princeton...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Five Years Of Spence: Technocrat Or Visionary? | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

Like Cry Freedom, it follows the struggle of a white South African man who suddenly wakes to the injustice of apartheid. Also like Cry Freedom, the movie spends a disproportionate amount of time on the problems of whites instead of Blacks...

Author: By Kit Troyer, | Title: Shooting Black and White | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

Another jewel comes in the performance of Zakes Mokae, who plays Stanley Sutherland's partner in the fight to prosecute Stolz. Unfortunately, some of the film's more insipid lines are dumped on Mokae, lines such as "hope is a white word" and "the best way to remember a man is to keep fighting." But Mokae managers a convincing mix of spite and tenderness, nonetheless...

Author: By Kit Troyer, | Title: Shooting Black and White | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

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