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Word: photographic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have searched my vocabulary for one word that best describes the photograph of Mount St. Helens. I considered gorgeous, fantastic, astounding, awesome, but decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Well, maybe. Though there are an estimated 3,200 EVs of one kind or another in use today in the U.S., a number of problems remain. Not the least is that the electric car's image is still an ancient sepia-tint photograph, a little mildewed and smelling of old lace. To hot young engineers in Detroit-where the action nowadays is in computerized fuel injection, stratified charge engines and other technologies for saving gasoline-electrics are a scientific diversion. Wall Street's auto-industry analysts reflect that mood. Says Maryann Keller, a vice president of Paine Webber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Volts Wagon Does It, Again | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Family resemblance has confused you [May 12]. Her Majesty the Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Edward, not Prince Andrew, in the photograph taken at last month's Badminton Horse Trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1980 | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...than France's First Lady to open what could become France's First Garden? A palette of colors again are the grounds at Giverny that Impressionist Claude Monet planted and painted for 43 years. They withered after he died in 1926, but are now restored. Indeed, a photograph of Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing, backdropped by blossoms, looked a little like a Monet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1980 | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...totalitarian rant), they climb aboard overcrowded boats and go pitching out across the water to a different life. When they glimpse the new land, they throng to the rails; they peer toward the dock with that vulnerable immigrant look of yearning that everyone carries in memory, like a cracked photograph: the faces at Ellis Island, the Golden Door-or at least the servants' entrance-to the new world and all its redemptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Guarding the Door | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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