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Word: soured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grabbed my head to see if my hair was still there," said Art Hancock, Executive Vice President of Jack Daniel Distillery, theTennessee sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirits: Real Men Don't Drink Bourbon? | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957). Never a master of plot or construction, Inge was incomparably tender, a poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-aged longing. An honored place in theater history seemed assured. Then all went sour. Flop followed flop; drink and depression overtook him. When he committed suicide in 1973, the New York Times obituary appraised him as a man who had "lost his gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Laureate of Longing | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lives in the Flow | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner was attending a meeting of Southern farm officials in Baton Rouge, La., last week when he got the news. He left immediately for Miami. There, in a sour-orange tree in the backyard of a home in the Little Havana district, a state agriculture inspector had discovered one female and three male Mediterranean fruit flies in a trap. The medfly, as it is known, is a dreaded pest that could devastate Florida's billion-dollar citrus and vegetable industry if allowed to spread. Said Conner: "We're very concerned. This is obviously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invasion of Florida | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...already a classic of Hollywood deal making gone sour. The upshot is that if Director Francis Coppola, 45, has any chance of getting The Cotton Club to the screen in December as planned, it rests with U.S. District Court Judge Irving Hill. In a ruling last week in Los Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1984 | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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