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Word: self (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...same reason, basically, that you step on cockroaches. Geraldo is so self-righteous. If he would just say, "You know what? We're going to have a neat show today, and maybe you'll get to see a woman's breasts." But instead, he says, "We're going to talk about this cult that stabbed the kids and cut the kids' noses off, and you'll get to actually see a picture of it. It will be really neat." Geraldo has that certain je ne sais quoi. For want of a better word, I would call him a jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with DAVE BARRY: Madcap Airs All | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

POOR LL Cool J. Almost every rap artist has made fun of him ever since his second album, Bigger and Deffer, turned the 20-year-old rapper from New York into the self-proclaimed King...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Soft Tunes From a Hard Bragger | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...Pierce and enjoying wide powers to block projects. She told the Wall Street Journal that the rent-subsidies program was "set up and designed to be a political program ((and)) we ran it in a political manner." At a congressional hearing last week, she invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Given their meager influence on Israeli public opinion, which is moving furiously rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying To Bridge the Gap | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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