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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hanging on to your heritage is just one way of realizing who you are: romantic relationships are another. The second week of first year I met this guy in the laundry room. He was perfectly nice, (he was even from the Midwest--not Eastern at all) and we talked about the QRR test for awhile. Eventually my darks were dry and I collected my basket, jug of Tide and bid him goodbye...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming, go-to-meeting country music, by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...tone of caustic irony. It fails to disguise a moralist concerned with a lapse of decorum and values. In a discussion of capital punishment, the condemned is told, "Try to think of something piquant to say on your way to the gas chamber. 'See you in hell, Mom,' is nice. Things like . . . 'Don't stop to mourn, organize' sound too stiff for what's basically an informal situation." It is at such times that the mask of the mockingbird slips off to reveal the owl beneath, hooting at a world he is furiously attempting to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Cows As Hamburger | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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