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Word: suppers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he said, had given him a verbal thrashing. "My visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the President was more in the nature of a visit in the woodshed after supper," Stockman said. "He was not happy about the way this has developed-and properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to the Woodshed | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...Without Supper. Not everything can be blamed on Gary Coleman. The sassy black kid-the slick-speaking bro who scores points off the ofay-goes back to the Good Times of the mid-'70s. But it was Coleman, on Dijfrent Strokes (NBC, Thursdays at 9 p.m.), who parlayed his cheekiness into stardom. And now a horde of white child actors have co-opted the game. It must be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Smutcoms, Enter Sweetcoms | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...Supper Without Bed. Producer-Writer Michael Landon has proved himself a man with a mission. In Little House, a TV movie and now Father Murphy (NBC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m.), he has persistently dramatized one theme: children's fear of bedwetting. Father Murphy, which disposed of this problem in the first episode, provides a home for the frontier orphans who could not fit into Little House but are nonetheless aggressively wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Smutcoms, Enter Sweetcoms | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...long time and anyone who makes predictions right now has a brain full of sawdust, but expect a net gain in 1982, in which we will pick up control of the House." Edward Mahe, a former director of the Republican National Committee (RNC) told 15 students over supper at Leverett House as part of the Fellows' Roundtable discussion series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two IOP Fellows Discuss GOP | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...minimalist with language; his prose reduces events to small, discrete moments. He uses words less to evoke a scene than to catalogue it: "The sun was beaming through the pantry window into the kitchen; there was a block of yellow light on the wall above the table, set for supper with mismatched plates, glasses, a loaf of bread and a carton of milk. It was five-thirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Country: Chilly Depths | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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