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Word: metallicized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something was wrong. Other skitcom graduates, like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, had profitably accommodated their TV personalities to the big screen. But Robin Williams was not allowing himself to be Robin Williams. It made for a dispiriting spectacle, like watching a great juggler hold, just hold, a lemon. Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playtime For Gonzo | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Given the good intentions of microbrewers, one might expect all of their products to be delicious. But a tasting of 13 varieties purchased in the New York City area proved this is not quite the case. Among the most disappointing -- because they lacked flavor or because of unpleasantly sharp and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Roll Out the Barrel | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

American scientists have eagerly pursued that future since last winter, when a burst of research activity rescued superconductors from relative obscurity. The excitement followed a discovery in the spring of 1986 by IBM scientists in Zurich. Their find: a metallic ceramic compound that became a superconductor at a temperature well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Frenzied Hunt for the Right Stuff | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

There was chokingly sweet carrot butter, which the manufacturer claimed makes men think "they have died and gone to heaven." Also sour-sweet and metallic- tasting salad dressings "designed" by Gloria Vanderbilt and fool-the-eye chocolate Buffalo chicken wings packed with a container of blue-cheese dip. Something called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Fancy Is as Fancy Does | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Send this man of steel out to terminate the Terminator. He's clean and lean, with the soul of a blue machine -- an incorruptible, indestructible cop. Shoot him and he barely gets dented; bribe him and he turns you in. With a gait as clangorous as "Duke" Wayne's, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Soul of a Blue Machine ROBOCOP | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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