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Word: somethingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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At 33, four times married, Earle seems occasionally to be dedicating himself to Faron Young's country credo: "Live fast, love hard and die young." A fracas with a trouble-oriented Dallas cop last New Year's Eve will bring him to trial on an assault charge July 25, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Six Signposts on a New Country Mile | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

The choice of Bentsen was something of a surprise; so too the generally laudatory reaction. He carries some campaign liabilities: his age and general lack of zip, as well as a silky style that makes it hard for Middle-Class Mike to depict Silver-Spoon George as a country-club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats An Indelicate Balance | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

His Greek identity would be clear to a person of Dukakis' intelligence growing up in a house where his grandmother spoke only Greek. Stelian and Michael had a second language they could use when they did not want their schoolmates to understand them (as Dukakis even now uses Greek with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Especially a mystery, one would think, to Michael. Stelian was the only other Greek boy who had grown up in the same circumstances. Michael had no Greek kids in the neighborhood, peers or rivals, to compare himself with -- as Mario Cuomo, for instance, had a swarm of Italian friends to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

George Bush claims that he had time for deep reflection on the submarine that picked him up in the Pacific (it concentrates the mind to be shot out of the air and lose two crewmates); but Dukakis is not given to meditation, to reading books for their own sake, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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