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Word: patching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dolls aren't much better. The big trend is potty-training accessories, including Hasbro's Cabbage Patch-size toilet with tinkling and flushing sound effects. As for action figures, check out Tyco's Incredible Crash Dummies with detachable limbs. What better way to teach your child auto safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Santa Might Get Sick | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...past is cruel, his factual grounding is solid. But what makes the work so hauntingly memorable is a poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines the action to the same few hundred acres of his ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ritual and Realism | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Before he began to speak, Lee removed hisMalcolm X baseball cap. He also took of his blackleather jacket, which sported the words "MalcolmX" on the back and a patch on the front bearingthe logo of his film company, "40 Acres and aMule." He wore a print shirt, a silverchain andgrey corduroy pants. He slouched...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof. Spike Lee Arrives for First Class | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

Inevitably, the new patch will not be able to cure most smokers. According to last week's report, 26% of those wearing the device actually succeeded in abstaining for six months, as opposed to 12% of those using a placebo patch. Still, for smokers the choice seems clear: a 1 in 4 chance of quitting successfully, or the same odds of dying of a tobacco-related disease if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Patch of Hope for Smokers | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...HEALTH A patch that quiets the urge to smoke; Joe Camel woos the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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