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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 22, 1986 | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...pink-and-green landmark has been sold at auction by the feuding family of Wall Street's most notorious insider trader, Ivan Boesky. The buyer: Tycoon Marvin Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deals: Call It The Big Plunge | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...brother and sister leave home to wander through a place where exotic figures have the power to enchant and destroy. But the siblings are protected by an even greater force: goodness. At the end of a winding and hazardous journey, the wicked are vanquished and the children are redeemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In All Seasons, Toys Are Us | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...When we were growing up, he was always into sports. We weren't very close then," Chiarelli's sister, Anne, says. "We're a lot closer now. I follow his career a lot more...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Reluctant Poster Boy | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

Only Eliza Gleason and Laurence Bouvard as Ken's sister and niece seem to realize that their jobs as actors don't end after their lines are said. Both create characters of some dimension, and Bouvard is especially good as a precious 13-year old whose dream of becoming a famous artist will never come true. Neither, though, can save a Fifth of July that's about as desirable as a fifth of castor...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

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