Search Details

Word: shamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force and execution of the laws puts Dirty Harry to shame...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things change, the more they are the shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R., says Gorbachev, must become a "real superpower." Implicit in that phrase is a stunning confession: take away its 3.7 million men under arms and its 25,000-odd nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union would be a Third World country. There is a note of alarm, even shame, and a growing tone of impatience in the way he talks about the society and economy over which he presides. A new specter haunts the land of Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the specter of apostasy imposed from above. What Gorbachev calls a "revolution" is to be accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gorbachev Era | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...Peter's Square was sealed off. On a nearby avenue, while police watched intently, dozens of demonstrators cried "Shame!" and "Assassin!" Soon the object of their fury, Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, emerged from the Basilica wearing a red-and-white sash and a large smile. He had just spent 35 minutes in private with Pope John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pariah and the Pope | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...rotting shame developing in the Pacific Northwest last week was only the first sign of a crisis that could spread through other agricultural regions of the U.S. this summer as an unintended consequence of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The problem: a dire shortage of migrant workers, many of them illegal aliens from Mexico who are staying home or sticking close to the border this summer because they are afraid of deportation under the new law. Last week more than one-third of Oregon's $30 million strawberry crop was rotting because only about half the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rotten Shame: Who will pick the crops? | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next