Search Details

Word: pinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ever decreed that a presidential candidate must be accompanied on the campaign trail by a smiling wife and a bevy of pink-cheeked children. But a long tradition claims that the voters want a close look at every prospective First Family, and that they want any such family to be very familial indeed. No divorced man has ever been elected President, and except for Warren Harding, there has not been a childless President since James Buchanan (1857-61), who was also the only President to remain a lifelong bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Unknown First Family | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...does not translate easily to the West sounds the best, like the luminous, haunting folk-song collections of Zhanna Bichevskaya, whose mesmerizing soprano melds historical traditions and new directions. Alla Pugacheva has attained greater popular success, however, by going West. Pugacheva's act is a salmagundi of recycled Pink Floyd instrumentals, a sort of sunflower delicacy grafted from Joni Mitchell and chanteuse dramaturgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Keeping the Comrades Warm | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Student Attitudes Toward Learning. In a current hit song called Another Brick in the Wall, the rock group Pink Floyd brays: "We don't need no education." There is near unanimity among teachers that many students are defiantly uninterested in schoolwork. Says one West Coast teacher: "Tell me kids haven't changed since we were in high school, and I'll tell you you're living in a fantasy world." A New York panel investigated declining test scores and found that homework assignments had been cut nearly in half during the years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! Teacher Can't Teach! | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

While his teammates aided him, Harvard defenseman Haywood Miller played another superb game while handcuffing Princeton All-American Dave Heubeck. Miller along with Scott Pink and Frank Prezioso formed the air-tight defense that stifled many big guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sticking it to Them | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...Olander, a retired geologist who now cultivates a 40-acre apple orchard outside Yakima: "I was working on an irrigation ditch. The sky got dark, and I thought we had a hailstorm coming. Then it got deathly still, and all you could see through the darkness was the purple-pink glow of sheet lightning." Said Chuck Taylor, a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Pasco, Wash., who was at the Hanford nuclear complex 140 miles from St. Helens: "It looked exactly like a tornado bearing down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

Previous | 550 | 551 | 552 | 553 | 554 | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | 562 | 563 | 564 | 565 | 566 | 567 | 568 | 569 | 570 | Next