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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wife Nancy continues to make Leona Helmsley seem as good-natured as your Aunt Libby. My Turn, the long awaited tell-nothing autobiography of the woman who "shared a bed with the President" is finally being released. Thank God. I'll need something to tide me over between Roseanne Barr...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Reagan II: He's Back | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

Fewer people realize, however, that since then, the Verba report has failed almost completely. It has failed not because its recommendations were poor, but because the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the faculty, vetoed them without letting the full Faculty consider their merits. The only success achieved was in...

Author: By Wendell C. Ocasio, | Title: The Failure of the Verba Report | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

In fact, they knew they had the best job in the world. No matter what, there is nothing a photojournalist would rather do than look at the world around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Job in the World | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

It's not just newspapers whose lives were made livelier by the presence of jittery activity on both coasts. Television too had a lot to talk about, and so did ordinary people with nothing else to do.

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Fascinated by Quakes and Crashes | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

The Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We Shoot People, Don't We? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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