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Word: offed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter B. Wriston, Citibank chairman, joining a coalition of chief executives who hope to increase business influence in New York: "In Pittsburgh, you can get 20 guys in a room and build the Golden Triangle. In New York, you can't get 20 guys to fix a parking ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Robert E. Kaufmann, Harvard associate dean, on the university's $9,000 tuition, following one of the largest jumps in fees in 343 years: "We don't know if the increase will meet strong student resistance or not."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

What's that angry green parrot doing on top of that mound of cotton-candy hair? And who is that in such an enormous wedding dress, balancing the cake, complete with bride and groom, on top of her head? Isn't the answer obvious by now? She is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those who do not yet know about her soon will. Hollywood tom-toms are all but nominating her for an Academy Award for her first screen role, in The Rose. The movie, the story of a doomed '60s rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Describing a tour of Europe, she lights upon the Queen of England, "the whitest woman in the world. She makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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