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Word: norma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever seen her jog. She has no time for tennis. And she certainly does not play baseball, soccer, basketball or any of the other sweaty sports that absorb millions of Americans. "Watching people on the street is my thing," says Clothes Designer Norma Kamali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...characters and the situations they encounter along the way is problematic. Ritt's direction is plodding when it is not obvious. It lacks the romantic lift that this film needs. Luckily, Field has the spunk and sass to redeem Back Roads just as she did Ritt's Norma Rae two years ago. He should never leave home without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Detour | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that of her great rival Renata Tebaldi. It could be volatile and reedy. Her wanderings impaired her health and her voice. She enjoyed only about ten years of international fame before serious vocal trouble began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grandest Diva | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Rita and Robin, the two women who type with me at the Trib, take me out for coffee and tell me that Norma, my supervisor, does not like me because I am interested in doing more than typing...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: My Happy Summer in France | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...spunk and drive, a lot of changes will have to be made before it can compete on Princeton's level, or generate the amount of respect necessary to earn a following. First, the team will have to address the alarming attition rate that plagues it annually. Ivy League superstar Norma Barton and sprinter Janle Smith are just two of the multi-talented swimmers who hung up their goggles this year to explore what Harvard has to offer outside of Blodgett. And, as the shamefully unupdated record board indicates, there are a number of former greats like Liz Kelley and Sherry...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Tigers In Tanksuits | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

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