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Word: roomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This living-room war last week produced a titanic battle -- Wednesday night's Donnybrook between Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle -- that might be called The Revenge of the Second Bananas. Bentsen was solid, senatorial and soothingly statesmanlike. Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost. The one-sided debate did not instantly alter the Electoral College arithmetic favoring George Bush, but it did appear to have kept the race open as the two presidential contenders head toward their final face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Beginning with their criticism of Quayle's failure to answer the opening question, the 15 voters in the Heitger living room provided play-by-play commentary. As soon as Quayle mentioned the pollution in Boston Harbor, Donna McManus, the wife of a policeman, exclaimed, "That's the same as the campaign ad." After an artful Bentsen attack on Bush's ties to Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, Betty Heitger whispered to her husband, "You've got to admit, this guy is very skilled." Halfway through the debate, even the strong Bush partisans were dismayed as Quayle seemed to derail. Die-hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...Democrats were airing a commercial they had started preparing two weeks ago precisely for this turn of events. Part of Dukakis' "packagers" series in which five crafty imagemakers plot how best to deceive the American public about Bush, the commercial depicts the cynical image-manipulators in a smoke- filled room. Packager No. 1: "We've got a disaster on our hands." No. 2: "After all that rehearsal, I thought we had Quayle totally programmed." No. 3: "Not totally." No. 4: "Suddenly the words President Quayle even make me nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ninety Long Minutes in Omaha | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...woman sublets an apartment. Because of an architectural quirk, she discovers she can overhear her neighbor's conversations. Since he is a ( psychiatrist, she finds herself eavesdropping, against her will, on the high, mysterious emotions pouring forth from his consulting room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Other Voices, Other Rooms | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...life. A philosopher (she has taken this second apartment as a quiet place to write a book), she is married to a prosperous surgeon who makes no unreasonable demands on her time or emotions. Why then is she drawn to a particular voice from the next room? Probably because change has opened a breach in her defenses, and she recognizes in the speaker a voice she long ago stilled in herself. Actually it belongs to a woman called Hope (Mia Farrow), great with child, great with inchoate dreams and feelings too. Curiosity leads to obsession; soon Marion is following Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Other Voices, Other Rooms | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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