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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice to have some [dissertations] gleaming through the cracks at this point," Movius said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funky Doctoral Theses Chosen For Publication | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...HAVE spent a significant amount of time and energy trying to convince people that New Jersey is a nice place. I answer "New Jersey!"--not "New York!"--when people ask me where I'm from. I call the Giants the New Jersey Giants, expound upon the undisturbed beauty of the Pine Barrens, and even pretend to like Bruce Springsteen on occasion...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: The NIMBY Syndrome | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

Running endless engaging variations on this character has given the actor a "nice, comfortable career in cinema." It has also teased audiences into believing the Marcello males are transparent masks for Mastroianni the man. The actor will oblige this pretense. "Basically," he says in a melodic baritone slightly rasped by his three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, "there is always yourself. On yourself you build. First the foundation, then the floors. So what I try to do is to offer myself undressed, without any covering. And in a naive way, as if it was the first time. Forget that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cary Grant, Italian Style | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung: her jealousy cuts like a knife. Scott's film, cooler, less apocalyptic, says only this: Know your place -- Manhattan or Queens, restlessness or security -- and stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High-Risk Love in an Alien World SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...would be nice to have him ready to go," said Getman. "But he understands why he's not starting. His fitness is holding...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: A Scottish Sensation | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

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