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Word: somethingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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"They intend to build something-like I intend to hit the lottery next week," said Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci. "But I never do."

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: City Blocks Supermarket | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

It would be easy to end our examination of this new consumer product by condemning corporate America and the men who make it work. But maybe they're on to something this time. Maybe Colman Mockler knows something about the importance of shaving that I don't know. Maybe when...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Shaving 'Til You Disappear | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

But for the other three, the nightmare will continue. No matter how precisely the A's marched through the summer, no matter how majestically Mitchell and Clark reigned over National League pitching, no matter how admirably Cito Gaston rescued the sinking Blue Jay ship, no matter how magically the Cubs...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: This Year, Someone's Gotta Win | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

There is no shortage of suggestions on what Gorbachev should do. Western economists advise some breathtakingly sweeping changes: decontrol prices, end huge state subsidies, expand the private sector, open a capital market with realistic interest rates. Soviet specialists call for something more elusive: effective leadership. Says Oleg Bogomolov, director of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Gorbachev 's Vision Thing | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Nowhere is its delight in the ironic life of overlaid signs made clearer than in the use of collage, which Picasso invented and Braque rapturously extended. The caning in Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, is mechanically printed oilcloth, and its presence in the tiny painting -- worked over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Adam and Eve of Modernism | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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