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Word: naughton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps its most remarkable attainment is that the premise and structure, which sound inordinately egghead when described, are easy to grasp in performance. The action begins with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and well-heeled thieves. Moments later the story shifts to the office (coyly labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hello Again to the Long Goodbye | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Wildcat defense, led by sweeper Maura Naughton, clamped down. The UNH attackers, mean-while, aggressively turned up the pressure on Reilly, while Harvard dropped into a passive defensive posture. Reilly turned back each Wildcat scoring opportunity...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: W. Booters Blank 'Cats, 1-0 | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

Harvard and Yale defeated Oxford and Cambridge, 21-13, to win the Naughton Cup track meet at New Haven, Conn., Saturday...

Author: By Christopher M. Thorne, | Title: Thinclads, Yale Claim Naughton Cup | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

THROUGH her relationship with Leo, it seems as though Anna will finally be able to become the passionate, carefree person she wants to be. But the dream is shattered when her ex-husband, Brian (James Naughton), accuses Leo of sexually molesting Molly (Asia Vieria), their six-year old child, and brings a custody suit against his ex-wife...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Maternal Triangle | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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