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Word: rat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce. A year ago, Sanders rented San Francisco's Civic Center to treat 7,000 workers to a $350,000 party. Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell owns two yachts: the 41-ft. Pong, which he has lent to a friend, and the 44-ft. Sea Rat, which he uses himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking It Rich: A new breed of risk takers is betting on the high-technology future | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...Amboise follow the music's every twist and unexpected turn, illustrating its ripples with flowing figurations of their own. The third movement's bold, thrusting opening is similarly reflected in the dance, which includes some rapid-fire footwork for D'Amboise inspired by the rat-a-tat-tat of the piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle in the second movement. Into a vivid world of women - the girls in dark red, Calegari and Kistler in brightest white - Robbins suddenly injects the dark, powerful presence of Mel Tomlinson, effecting a stark, dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Jazzing It Up at the Ballet | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

After the first period, the furthest thing from the minds of any Lynah Rink Rat was a Harvard comeback possibility Cornell's Roy Kerling, Mark Henderson and Dan Duffy scored three straight Big Red Goals following Crimson center Phil Falcone's first goal just 3:20 into the game, and it looked like the Lynah Rink jinx was kicking up its heels again...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Surprise Big Red, 5-4 (OT) | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

Please, the Rex cat does not look like a rat. If you must liken this unique animal to another, the Rex should be known as the greyhound or whippet of catdom. With its curly, nonshedding coat the Rex is a cat that people with allergies can often keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Among the many improbabilities of Taps is the nonappearance of that group. Surely in dealing with a military academy that is literally up in arms, chat-chat is preferable to rat-tat-tat. Moreover, the film never decides whether it has come to praise or bury the military tradition. Its ambiguity is apparent in casting the likable Hutton as the rebel leader. He tries, but one just cannot believe he is the kind of ramrod who would, or could, take his peers to the brink of armed confrontation and beyond. What with Director Becker lingering too long over various photogenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sour Notes | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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