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Word: secretes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Town News and Nini's in the Square, managers reported that the semi-secret society's latest comedic venture is selling "much better" than most of its previous publications--although it might not outsell the Lampoon's 1987 USA Today parody...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Lampy Mag May Outsell Hotcakes | 6/6/1989 | See Source »

Mostly the fine ensemble of young actors who are members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids nowadays, probably because it is one that their popular culture rarely troubles to make to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Bothered School Spirit | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...withdrew his name, citing party discipline. Leningrad engineer Alexander Obolensky, 46, a | political unknown, nominated himself -- not because he had any illusion of winning, he explained, but "to set a precedent" of contested elections. By 1,415 to 689, the assembly voted to keep Obolensky's name off the secret ballot. Gorbachev was elected President with 95.6% of the vote; 87 delegates voted against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: USSR Presiding over a new Soviet Congress, Gorbachev gets a clamorous lesson in democracy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...high when he sings and still hit below the belt. His secret is simple, elemental. Even laid-back, he sounds sexy, an inborn talent that was nurtured by some early vocational training. "You're talking to someone who used to be a male stripper," he says. "It was all show business, and it's probably helped with my presentation." Just so no one gets too comfy with what to expect of Gift, he has signed up to do a production of Romeo and Juliet later this year in the north of England, and is reading the script for a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gift Wrapped for a Ruckus | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...trick nor reveals how it's done. See how he cues the change of a Zeppelin's course by the shadow scampering across a cocktail glass; watch a motif of cigarette lighters carry complicity from one character to another. Like a fine old haunted castle, his film has secret staircases of suspense, revolving panels of plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What's Old Is Gold: A Triumph for Indy | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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