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Word: queenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration officials, unhappy with her handling of the mess at her agency, also favored jettisoning the "Ice Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoring Up a Shaken EPA | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Fanfare, floating feasts and Hollywood galas greet the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Majesty in Mellowland | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...most moving episode in A Chorus Line, and also the one in which the artists finally share their professional anxiety, comes with the song, "What I Did for Love." Paul (Wayne Meledandis) an ex-drag queen humiliated by his past, pulls a ligament in his knee and is carried off. The remaining dancers fall silent in shock: Paul's accident forces them to consider the instability of their career...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Soaring Chorus | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

GOGOL'S THE MARRIAGE is not a children's play. It has no fantastic characters, like the playing-card Queen of Alice in Wonderland; it doesn't move with the slapstick speed of Punch and Judy. On the contrary, Gogol's characters, the bourgeois of 19th century Russia, are fairly ordinary people; the humor of inept matchmaking and awkward courtship is less visual than verbal. Nevertheless the show--performed Monday at Children's Hospital and weekends at Quincy House--speaks to the children in the audience. By simplifying the plot and exaggerating its comic elements. Scott Weiner's production gives...

Author: By Margaret Gruarize, | Title: Match-Making | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

...surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution to the food. The officers' club has been stripped of its jukebox and banners; only the lingering perfume of Major Margaret ("Hot Lips") Houlihan (Loretta Swit) will drive the ghost of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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