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Word: supermarket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drove away from a supermarket, a man jumped into her car and tried to rob her. She sprayed Mace at him, whereupon he shot her twice and fled. No arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Week's Murder Victims | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Kremlin's patience seemed to be running out faster than sugar in a Warsaw supermarket. After a surprise meeting with Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski in Moscow last week, Soviet leaders issued their toughest statement on Polish affairs since the outbreak of labor unrest eight months ago. The communique said that the Soviets expected their Polish comrades "to reverse the course of events and liquidate the perils looming over the socialist gains of the nation." The participants in the minisummit, which was presided over by Leonid Brezhnev and attended by five Soviet Politburo members, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Bloc: Warsaw's New Crackdown | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Most cumbersome ideological baggage for a light comedy: Dupler's employer is a supermarket chain called UltraSave (U.S., get it?), whose aisles are patrolled by emasculated wimps and homicidal amazons, where the security guard is trigger-happy and a toy helicopter strafes and devastates the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Superlatives ALL NIGHT LONG | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

They would proceed from a strong premise-The Incredible Shrinking Man, a deadpan 1957 sci-fi thriller-and give it a feminist twist. While the original protagonist shrank from a dose of radiation, Tomlin's happy homemaker would suffer from exposure to the mysterious ingredients in supermarket products: everything from "tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sanforized | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...nice to know that Ron is doing to her what he's been doing to the rest of us." Says Patricia, who works for a highly regarded local firm: "People are so hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks in a supermarket to making reservations at a restaurant." Adds Ron, 36, an attorney with a public interest law firm: "The reaction has only demonstrated the need to challenge head-on this xenophobia and greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Alaska's Most Unpopular Couple | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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