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Word: plaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is method to Babbit's apparent madness. He is in the process of honing a straight-talking image, something sure to play well after eight years of Reagan and the recent campaign of George "Read My Lips" Bush and his spate of media advisers. (This plain campaign style could help Rudy Giuliani, the well-known former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, become the city's next mayor...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Mr. Smith Comes to Harvard | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Dread Scott Tyler. What astonished him was the mobs of outraged veterans and others who gathered daily at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to protest his controversial work featuring an American flag stretched on the floor. Until the exhibition closed last week, politicians, patriots and just plain folks joined in angrily condemning what they believed was desecration of Old Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Don't Tread On Me | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...West needs to give definition and vigor to a basically sensible approach. It must identify what trends it should encourage, where involvement can have the greatest impact and where initiative would be largely wasted. Poland's Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski, for one, has made it plain to Secretary of State James Baker that he welcomes help: "The United States should not be absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Eastern Europe: Chips Off the Old Bloc | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

This conversation goes on for a while, and pretty soon she's referring to Professor Chave as just plain Anna or Professor Jardine as just plain Alice and talking about the struggle she is going to have with writing a purely theoretical thesis. And the whole time, I just wish to myself that I had a can of shaving cream with me to spray on this woman's face so that she would shut up and recognize that she is essentially a goofball like the rest...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

...father, remember, was still a vestryman and her mother sent checks to TV fundamentalists. In a sophisticated boardroom Clara could be as plain as cornmeal mush, and in such a mood, when she opened her mouth, you couldn't guess whether she would speak or blow bubble...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: No Nobels For New Bellow Paperback Novella | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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