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Word: objections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TAXING WOMAN. An immovable object in the shape of a greedy, tax-resisting real estate magnate meets the irresistible force of a zealous lady tax collector. Japan's Juzo Itami (Tampopo) collects our interest and offers sly dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 13, 1988 | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...disagree with Randi on specific points," says Carl Sagan, "but we ignore him at our peril." "He's a national treasure," says Author Isaac Asimov. Randi's targets are less enthusiastic. A Popoff staff member calls him "the devil" and an atheist. He has been the object of hate-mail campaigns by some of his foes. All to no avail. Says Randi: "No blackmail, no threats, can cause me to back away from my chosen work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...whimsical army of knights, bishops, rooks and pawns, all carved and constructed from basalt. This brittle volcanic rock is too hard to chisel cleanly; it can only be sawed or broken like a flint. Corbero revels in the risks of breaking it. Each piece of basalt becomes a found object -- altered, but bearing a memory of the raw look it had in the quarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Goldstein successfully employed the tactic ofputting the object of a protest on trial in hisdefense of Abby Hoffman and Amy Carter. Hoffmanand Carter were arrested during a demonstrationagainst CIA recruiting at UMass-Amherst...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Divestment Activists Enter Not Guilty Plea | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...TAXING WOMAN. An immovable object in the shape of a greedy, tax-resisting real estate magnate meets the irresistible force of a zealous lady tax collector. Japan's Juzo Itami (Tampopo) collects our interest and offers sly dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 30, 1988 | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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