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Word: mote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jones), join the parade of winners? Or even surpass them? It ought to. It's the summer's best "summer movie." This is a film with something -- indeed, too funny much -- for everybody. A sci-fi thriller in which one brave man is miniaturized to the size of a mote and takes a fantastic voyage into another man's buttock. A buddy picture in which both buddies occupy the same body. A classic romance of two men in love with the same girl, and somehow all three kiss at once. And just when you think the movie will provide some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...lose last Saturday, though, they and their classmates, Phil Mote and Lionel Leventhal--who were victorious in another race in Syracuse, N.Y. Saturday--helped put Harvard rowing back on track...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Harvard-Yale: The Last Race | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Getting The Blues | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...cliched paraphernalia of a prolific writer can be found in this immaculate room. Not a single crumpled wad of paper, not one disjointed scribbled phrase nor even a teetering pile of books. The white walls are blank, the metal bookshelves are empty, neither a scrap of paper nor a mote of dust disturbs the woodgrain desk...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...drug addict holds a peculiar place in society, not unlike the AIDS victim; the impulse to shun collides with the impulse to embrace. If the addict happens to be your colleague or your daughter, the confusion doubles; there are no impoverished minorities to pity or blame. You become a mote in history. For thousands of years, people have smoked, snorted, injected their way between paradise and self-murder, while the outer world has watched, scolded, legislated, not legislated, with barely the slightest comprehension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enemy Within | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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