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Word: nugget (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than race is involved in country's success. At the end of a decade marked by lip-synching scandals and Material Girlhood, Americans are reclaiming their right to sentimentality, civility and a little bit of cellulite on the dance floor. Take, for example, some patrons of the Golden Nugget, a night spot in Buffalo's flourishing country-and-western scene. "In a disco, if you're not a size 3, forget it," says Heidi Fisher, 28. "They're into spandex heaven. And your hair has to be out to here with hair spray. I only wear spandex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $25). L.B.J.'s closest aide on domestic policy during the mid-'60s delivers a hard, pure nugget of the 36th President. Califano provides graphic reports of the bullying and lying that ultimately consumed the Texan, but also shows the larger purpose -- the civil rights campaign, the legislative battles on health, education and housing -- that struggled within the tortured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 13, 1992 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...Johnson is like conducting a monstrous archaeological dig, with authors desperately collecting the shards from his mountainous record. Some are intent on assembling the dark glints, while others gather points of light. Joseph Califano, his closest aide on domestic policy for 3 1/2 years, has delivered a hard, pure nugget of L.B.J. that is close to the truth. Califano was there taking notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bully for A Good Cause | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...didn't want my wisdom. He wanted a sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Please Don't Quote Me | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...always considered the Bow a nugget o'sanity in the middle of a very warped college environment," says Stowers. "It's not like that anymore...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: From Bikers To Preppies, Bud Hats To Chinos | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

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