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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find me attractive, so I put away my boxing gloves." At school Michelle acted up; at home she acted out. "I'd sing into the garden hose and pretend I was Elvis," she recalls. "Whenever I'd try to con my mother, she'd say, 'What a drama queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mafia Princess, Dream Queen MARRIED TO THE MOB | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...wooing of the Saudis absorbed the British government at every level. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul al-Saud attended the races at Ascot last month as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. Having visited Saudi Arabia to press for the sale in 1986, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was not about to fall in line with the U.S. in this case, as she has on other issues. She is determined that nothing go amiss with a deal that promises to create 50,000 British jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Let's Not Make a Deal | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Also lingering on most street corners are supporters of extremist Lyndon LaRouche, himself a one-time pretender to the White House. His followers try to convince passers by that the Queen of England is a dope pusher and accuse opponents of being cocaine addicts...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Of Democratic Party Protests, Politics and Partying | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...with Bob Young to form YOY Productions. YOY has several movies planned, among them The Miracle, about a love relationship between a Central-American revolutionary and a priest, and Birds of Paradise, a psychological drama set in Papua New Guinea that Olmos describes as a "cross between African Queen and Raiders of the Lost Ark." Also in the planning stages: an adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote directed by Young and starring Olmos as the man of La Mancha. Says he: "I want to play Don Quixote so bad I can taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Burning With Passion | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Akeem, Crown Prince of mythical Zamunda, is in most respects a splendid young fellow: nice looking, well-spoken, equable and compassionate in spirit. His only deficiency is a certain literalness when it comes to geography: he thinks the logical place to look for a future queen is a place named Queens. You know -- the New York City borough you try to drive through without stopping on the way into Manhattan from the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Taming of Eddie Murphy COMING TO AMERICA | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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