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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather to revive Nerdy Genius Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) by any means at hand. Heady stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Good From Beyond | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...about private corporate behavior before that knowledge has reached the public domain. It has been compared to playing poker with marked cards. But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers," which opens to the public this week, completes the trajectory. The organizer of both shows, the English art historian Ronald Pickvance, has brought together 70 paintings and 19 drawings from this last phase of Van Gogh's short life. Here we see the stuff of the most powerful legend of suffering and transcendence in modern art, and no superlatives seem apt to encompass its beauty and emotional range. It is a characteristic of great painting that no matter how many times it has been cloned, reproduced and postcarded, it can restore itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...turned out the story was from The New York Times, which the White House has somebody read every morning to pick out the good stuff and boil it down for the President. That way Reagan doesn't have to wade through a lot of yawners about ballistic missiles and the War Powers...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: On the White House Beat | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...After we stuff ourselves with turkey, The Crimson will resume publication on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

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