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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here it is, folks: the movie that hates its own audience. In mall-town America, a modest queue forms at the local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Neighbors | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Dressing up the Union for holidays and special events is a nice touch, and most students appreciated the candy and frappes during National Dairy Week. But making the workers demean themselves is not fair and does not benefit anyone...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Bovine Blues | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...excited about the match," said Jon Musto, Yale's number-one player. "This is really the big match for us. The Princeton match was nice, but we don't care that much about Princeton. We want to beat Harvard...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Harvard vs. Yale: Battle of the Bulge Set for Tonight | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

Based on The Next Generation, a television series begun last year, the novel is a tale of the new and not so nice voyages of the crew of the hammer-head spaceship that has replaced the Enterprise of the original series...

Author: By Michael Berke, | Title: The Final Frontier Gets Proton Torpedoed | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

Historians have long considered the 1908 livestock feeding barn of the Manchester family in New Hampshire, Ohio, to be one of the finest examples of a round barn in the Midwest. That was nice, but until recently, the barn was nearly useless for modern grain farming. Like most old barns, it contained stalls for livestock and horses -- the preindustrial tractors of agriculture -- and a cavernous hayloft for storing their fuel. Over time, the outmoded barn weathered and withered. But during the past 15 years, to avoid new construction costs, the Manchesters have braced the old roof, installed modern seed-conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: On The Farm: Barn Again! | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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