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Word: popularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SERENGETI DIARY (PBS, April 12, 8 p.m. on most stations). The ever popular National Geographic specials conclude their season with a look at the people and wildlife of this beautiful East African wilderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...because three of the four are named Heather. The fourth, Veronica (Winona Ryder, pallid of face and sharp as Cheddar), is at first pleased to be accepted by this "bunch of Swatch dogs and Diet Coke heads. They're, like, people I work with, and our job is being popular." Still, she is ready for a sinister avenging force in her life, a juvenile delinquent, a James Dean. He turns out to be J.D., a new boy in town who is itching to make trouble (played by Christian Slater, handsomely imitating Jack Nicholson's silky menace). Veronica may want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Life Ain't Worth Livin' | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard sports fan needed a dictionary. In 1989, the fan might need a book on popular culture in the 1980s (People magazine...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Raising Rhubarb in the Year 1959 | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

...Bussewitz, the most popular and longest-serving guide at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, can show you his haunt's beauty even on a cold and drizzly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walking With Buzzy | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

Sheehan also castigated American leaders of the time for their misguided yet rigid conviction that superior U.S. fire power could crush a popular insurgency in a prolonged war of attrition...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Prize-Winning Author: Recall Vietnam's Lesson | 4/12/1989 | See Source »

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