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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dreamscapes | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Britain's tabloid newspapers have long slavered over the lurid and the voyeuristic, whether it be gruesome photographs of air-crash victims on the pages of the People or bare-bosomed women on page 3 of the Sun. But in recent months, the newspapers' owners have discovered that the regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Editor, Heal Thyself | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

The U.S. State Department last year described it as "the most dangerous terrorist organization in existence." Its leader is possibly the world's most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finis for The Master Terrorist? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

The killing is largely the result of a struggle throughout much of the Middle East between followers of Abu Nidal (a nom de guerre for Jaffa-born Sabri Khalil al-Banna) and supporters of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. In southern Lebanon, according to the P.L.O., about 150 F.R.C. followers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finis for The Master Terrorist? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Not surprisingly, an industry has sprung up in the past few years to counsel lawyers who are less than content with their situation. "We might as well have a sign over our door that reads, 'Some of the most unhappy souls in the world come through these portals,' " says Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Have Law Degree, Will Travel | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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