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Word: rue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Reign of Good Old Nick | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...decade and a half later, with a new life and a new name -Jill Byrem of Bloomsburg is now Lacy J. Dalton of Santa Cruz, Calif. -she can start to sing about it. Her first album, which has sold well since Columbia issued it in March, is full of rue, muscle and hot sauce. Lacy J. works country territory, but with the bright sass and brass of a newcomer bound to make a mark. Those easygoing steel guitars and refrains about wrung-dry love affairs start to sound like clarion calls when Lacy dresses them for action. With a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...spirit form the core of this warm drama. Originally presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at St. Mark's Play house in Greenwich Village and currently housed at Broadway's Cort Theater, Home explores the texture of the black experience from the inside looking out with some rue but no hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Southbound | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Being eligible for the proposed draft [Feb. 11], I rue the possiblity of fighting and perhaps dying in an increasingly imminent military conflict. However, we can show the Kremlin that all young Americans can and will go to any lengths to ensure our nation's freedom. By starting the draft now in peacetime, we won't be forced to start it in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1980 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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