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Word: somethingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The result is that last week some network news chiefs were re-examining whether such events ought to be subjected to the full-blown assault that TV has traditionally given them. Even before the Democratic Convention was over, ABC News President Roone Arledge suggested that Democrats and Republicans, perhaps in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Do Conventions Turn Off the Public? | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Thus the Democratic Party chairman and Michael Dukakis' campaign manager defeated two barons of the press in convention week's favorite game: pin the tail on the donkey. The Democrats' renunciation of the word liberal annoys others besides journalists. It's annoying to believers in truth-in- advertising. Michael Dukakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hypocrisy and the L Word | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

In the large restaurant-style kitchen, just a few doors down the hall from Country Epicure's executive offices, the overpowering perfume of chocolate pervades the atmosphere. A pot of liquid bittersweet chocolate is ready for dipping, coating and adding to recipes. Just inhaling deeply could add something to your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Degree in Desserts | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Kumin moves with greyhound grace through the quiet kitchen. Despite a lifetime of working with high-calorie fare, he remains admirably thin. One reason: he rarely stops for lunch. In Kumin's world of mixtures, textures and boiling points, hands are sensitive instruments. With the touch of a finger, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Degree in Desserts | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Oddly enough, nearly everyone in the novel talks this way, as if the U.S. during the early 1960s were crawling with metaphysicians. "There's more to it, there's something we don't know about," muses a Cuban exile and hit man. "There's something they aren't telling us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reimagining Death in Dallas LIBRA | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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