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Word: middleses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Or so it was believed. Paul Fussell, 59, a Pasadena-born Anglophile and former professor of English at Rutgers, asserts that there are nine rigid castes in the U.S. They range from the out-of-sight rich living off capital in grand seclusion, to the destitute, who are also well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Elite Don't Meet | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Prestige attached to garages re mains unsettled, but the family car had better not be a Mercedes, Rolls or Cadillac. Fussell assures us that the best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Elite Don't Meet | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

McPhee succeeds beyond expectation in revealing character in the disciplines of work. He, too, is very busy backing and filling to present a story that spans 4.6 billion years. Beginnings and middles can get lost in this world without end. Geology, which never tires of repeating itself, is oblivious to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reading Rocks | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

The gilt-seekers: Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., (D-Mass) candidate for re-election in the 11th Congressional District and Sen. Michael J. Lopresti Jr., candidate for re-election in the SuBolk and Middles Senate District. These two are taking advantage of the second consonant in Math Ar. Both...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Down to the Wire | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

The first remarkable thing about this film is it's air of lazy progress. Cutter and Bone know each other so well that very little is set up in the usual Hollywood ways. In some respects, they have no sacred cows--Cutter's cynicism gives him the leeway to breach...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

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