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Word: steven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Raiders of the Lost Ark. George (Empire) Lucas + Steven (Close Encounters) Spielberg + Lawrence (Body Heat) Kasdan + Harrison (Star Wars) Ford = intelligent, thrilling blockbuster. Moves like a Rolls-Royce over bad road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of 1981: Cinema | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Seven years after he vanished while walking home from school in Merced, Calif., Steven Stayner, 14, suddenly reappeared. He told police that he had been held in a remote cabin by Kenneth Parnell for what amounted to half his lifetime.* The youngster was joyously reunited with his family, but as soon as his return was reported, a second trauma began. Within days, more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: For Sale: Gripping Life Stories | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

FOUR FRIENDS Directed by Arthur Penn Written by Steven Tesich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tattered Flag | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...Wonderland for Alice, and Sir Leslie Ward ("Spy"), whose work has decorated lawyers' offices for almost a century. Those with a taste for more recent vintages may find them in the pages of Man Bites Man, Two Decades of Satiric Art (A & W; 224 pages; $29.95) edited by Steven Heller. Although a few illustrations are pure character assassination, most are lampoons of contemporary trends. Gahan Wilson's Senators complain about environmentalists through gas masks; Ronald Searle's bird finds the sky too crowded and decides to walk; Bill Lee's pilgrims beg heaven for a sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasures of Art and Nature | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...beginnings of a cube backlash, though, are already apparent. Ballantine Books has published Not Another Cube Book, an anticube treatise that tells readers "How to Live with a Cubaholic" and "How to Kick the Habit." Entrepreneurs Steven and Roger Hill of Menlo Park, Calif., have produced what they call "the ultimate solution": the Cube Smasher, a plastic paddle guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits. So far they have sold 100,000. Those who resort to the Cube Smasher may also be interested in a paperback released this month by Tor Books. Its title: 101 Uses for a Dead Cube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubikmania | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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