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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henley knows all the odd angles in the geometry of love. In one of his best songs, Long Way Home, he wrote, "There are three sides to every story:/ Yours, mine, and the cold, hard truth." There seems to be a lot of truth on this new album. Much of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Building On Prime Real Estate | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

All across the U.S., among family doctors and brain surgeons, in large cities and small towns, the tensions are growing. Perhaps many doctors just miss their pedestals and the days when their patients were more respectful and their diagnoses unchallenged. But the soreness may also reflect the stresses and strains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Sick and Tired | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

While the rest of the U.S. economy is still creaking forward, the recession monitor is flashing yellow in Detroit. The reckoning was postponed for months by the Big Three's inveterate optimism, which kept assembly plants cranking out cars as though nothing were wrong, and by Detroit's ever sweetening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Motown Lost Its Big Mo | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Rarely have the denouncers of censorship been so eager to start practicing it. When a sense of moral disorientation overcomes a society, people from the least expected quarters begin to ask, "Is nothing sacred?" Feminists join reactionaries to denounce pornography as demeaning to women. Rock musician Frank Zappa declares that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Federal law requires that ambassadors "should possess clearly demonstrated competence," including knowledge of the language, history and culture of the country where they will serve. Several of Bush's diplomatic picks appear to know next to nothing about the countries to which they are being sent. What they have shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking Lemons for the Plums? | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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