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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right Stuff, Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Given such impedimenta, Morgan's quixotic search for his free spirit is the stuff of comedy, and Tyler plays much of his story just that way. Luckily, her hero is as amusing as he is misguided. He tells an opera story to a bedridden daughter: "Don Giovanni encounters a statue and invites it home to supper." He complains to Emily about Bonny's handling of the family money: "We never see it never buy anything inspiring with it, but it's there, all right, for things that don't show-new slate roof tiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rich Are Different | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...only spoke their lines but narrated their actions, too. "The fisherman went back to the seashore and called out for the flounder," the fisherman said as he went back to the seashore and called out for the flounder. Just a small bunch of actors handling some of the oldest stuff in the world and changing roles as quickly as the lights dimmed and came back...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Story Already Told | 3/13/1980 | See Source »

...Right Stuff, Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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