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Word: mantels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kellie was gunned down just five blocks from the neatly manicured, stucco home in south central where she lived with her mother Irene, 36, and her grandparents. Now all that remains of her is the silver-framed picture on the mantel and the bedroom her mother will not touch. Kellie was an only child. "We were best friends," says Irene, sitting in her daughter's room beneath the pictures of cover girls still taped to the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...himself in lonely dissent against the Justices' rulings upholding the constitutional rights of blacks, women and the poor. Indeed, Rehnquist was on the short end of so many 8-to-1 votes that his law clerks presented him with a small Lone Ranger doll, which still sits on the mantel in his chambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Mr. Right | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...infamous. Wigglesworth freshman suite, the five male residents have stacked nearly 400 Budweiser cans on their mantel, according to one of the co-artists, Vernon C. McDermott...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier and Adam Schwartz, S | Title: Livingroom Battle of the Sexes | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...over-generous critic placed him. Epstein too is in attendence, but of all contemporary writers I disesteem John Leonard easily heads the lists. I do not want to be of his company. Indeed, at the very mention of the name John Leonard it seemed that Montaigne threw his mantel across his shoulders and left the room, followed by Pascal delicately lifting the skirt of his vestments; Hazlitt said he had a previous engagement at the five courts, Lamb muttered something about his sister not being well. Orwell stubbed out his cigarette. Camus buckled the belt of his trenchcoat, and they...

Author: By John P. Wauck, | Title: Epstein's Silver Bullets | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...fixed formula of short stories, criticism, cartoons and articles, many of them serious, most of them current, all of them finely polished. Over the course of 60 years of independent proprietorship, The New Yorker won an enviably loyal audience along with an honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Changing the Guard At 60 | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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