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Word: seem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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These tensions do not lead to brawls, as on other campuses. But neither do they seem to be fading away. More and more, it seems the differences are here to stay; the tables will remain separated...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...just that. How we do it without making the President out to be a liar or an incompetent weakling is going to take all of George Bush's skills. The shiftiness required to get out of that box is going to make everything he's done to get here seem like child's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: A New Breeze Is Blowing | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

Israel's political leaders cannot seem to decide how much force is appropriate or acceptable in the face of international criticism. During the past year soldiers have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel A Moral Dilemma | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock the Borgias. And that's just for appetizers. The one aesthetic commandment of this Spanish writer-director might read: Begin in delirium, then floor it till the closing credits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...general population, but not likely. If the spread occurs, it will be slow: many scientists believe the virus is passed along less readily in conventional intercourse than in homosexual encounters. Anal intercourse is by far the most likely means of sexual transmission. Although the evidence is sketchy, women seem to be more at risk than men of acquiring the virus from the opposite sex. So far, 1,757 U.S.-born women may have contracted AIDS from men, and 565 men from women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Special Report: Good and Bad News About AIDS | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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