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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are differing effects when the sponsorship mutates from commercials into advertising which goes right onto the field...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Advertisers' Big Bucks Changing the Face of Most Sports | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...supporting cast, like their leaders, are mainly washed up has-beens with too much pride to sink to do Hollywood Squares but not enough talent to make it onto The Love Boat. There's Mary Gross, for example, Donna Dixon and Charles Grodin. Grodin, actually, pulls off what seems like a stellar performance in comparison, but it's lost amidst the stale jokes and valium-inspired acting perpetrated by his cohorts and the rest of the cast, unknown actors who are destined to remain...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: What A Long, Bad Trip It Is | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...film is taken up by his on-air improvisational monologues. It is said, in fact, that once the Williams magic was set to work in front of the camera, he was virtually unstoppable: of the original script for the Cronauer broadcast-booth sequences, only one line eventually made it onto the screen...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Go Back to Bed | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...voodoo priest in the southern region of Grande Anse, famed for his clairvoyant powers, foresees blood in Haiti's immediate future. He is not alone. A young woman who identifies herself only as Monique has piled her four small children onto a crowded bus that is heading for the boondocks. Like many others who live in the slums that surround Port-au-Prince, Monique does not want to be anywhere near the capital city during the election scheduled this Sunday. "I'm disappearing," she whispers, her eyes darting to see if she has been overheard. South of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Voting with Their Feet | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...superlative evocation of the England of George III. But Kaplan's aim is psychobiography, and her narrative attempts to press a free spirit into a Freudian mold. She rings in a psychoanalyst to testify on mind and motive: "Those who have not been able to project their Ego Ideal onto their father . . . grant themselves their missing identity by different means, creation being one among others. The work thus created will symbolize the phallus, the gap in the identity being likened to castration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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