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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more disturbing is Moses's intimation that Israel's sole importance is to give American Jews "a sense of identity and courage"--that it's nice to have around because it proves that Jews aren't wimps and it might come in handy in the event of another Holocaust. Israel also has its own cuisine and its own literature, its own cinema, and its own rock music. Israel represents not only a negative response to anti-Semitism, but an affirmation of traditional Jewish identity. A Zionist is not merely a person who "desires to live in a Jewish state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Objecting to 'A Solution for Israel' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...tuxedo; you half expect him to murmur, "Good evening, m'sieur," as you stroll by. Paintings of the High Tasteful school adorn the walls. Tea is being served -- 14 different blends -- on Rosenthal china. Perhaps madame would care for carrot cake, or a latte macchiato, or some nice kosher chocolates. Perhaps m'sieur and madame would also like to walk through the doors at the back of the lobby and catch Eddie Murphy Raw. For this is not the Stork Club or the Waldorf in a scene from some posh old Hollywood romance. It is a movie house in Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...weather's nice. And it does have a beach. And it's the foremost center of post-Niagra Falls schlock entertainment. There Falls schlock entertainment. There are about a zillion malls, movie theaters, race tracks, jai-alai frontons, bowling alleys, and combination mini-golf/go-cart/water-slide/batting cage/driving range/video arcade pleasure-mass-production-extravaganzas--plenty to keep one occupied for two weeks. And Grandma does have cable. And there are enough hot young high school-age granddaughters crisping themselves to perfection under the sultry Florida sun to keep you going back to the pool even though your feel the bridge of your...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Where Old People Bake Their Brains | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

Thus the eccentric hardly cares if he is seen to be strange; that in a sense is what makes him strange. The weirdo, however, wants desperately to be taken as normal and struggles to keep his strangeness to himself. "He was always such a nice man," the neighbors ritually tell reporters after a sniper's rampage. "He always seemed so normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...intrepid voyagers usually includes returning U.S. veterans and naturalized American citizens, born in Viet Nam. "It's nice, flying into Saigon, not having to sit on a flak jacket," says Bob Handy, 55, of Santa Barbara, Calif., who served a year in Chu Lai with the Marines. "I'm going back because it's a beautiful country." Like most of her fellow Vietnamese- born travelers, Tran Thi Thuc, 49, a health-care worker from Kalamazoo, Mich., was hoping to visit relatives. "I have not seen my mother since 1975," she says, recalling a hasty departure with her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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