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Word: reads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to read for two years, and I can read whatever I want. I think I must have been born under a very lucky star," said the scholar...

Author: By Angela G. Jacobs, | Title: Dunster House Resident Wins Canadian Rhodes | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

Another nifty stocking stuffer is a disk drive cleaner ($5-$15), a handy little device to keep someone's disk drive reading loud and clear. Basically, a special disk is inserted into the disk drive, and it uses its non-abrasive cleaner to clean the read-write head...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Holiday Gift Ideas for That `Significant Other' | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

...Tough Guys screenplay is also by Mailer, but while the novel took two months to write, the film took three times as long. "It was tougher than I thought it would be. Scenes that read well on the page wouldn't play well." The motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...most popular services by far are the messageries, or message centers, where anonymous, person-to-person conversations can get very personal indeed. Someone tuning in to one of the system's dozens of dating directories earlier this month could have read the following exchange between a man named Denis and a woman calling herself Sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Punching Up Wine and Foie Gras | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile West German attention focused on the Hasi-Salameh case. The pretrial confessions read to the court pointed to Syrian involvement. Both defendants admitted that a suitcase bomb used in the Friendship Society attack last March had been obtained from the Syrian embassy in East Berlin. Hasi said a man he knew as Abu Ahmed gave him the bomb in the embassy kitchen. After the device twice failed to explode, a Syrian explosives expert was summoned from the embassy. A few days later the bomb went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Death At the Doorstep | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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