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Word: sweetest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When obsessed fans turn violent, say experts, it is usually not out of hatred but because their romantic fantasies cannot be fulfilled. Celebrities with the sweetest images may be the most vulnerable, perhaps because their seeming availability makes the frustrated fan's disappointment more intense. Thus an actress like Joan Collins who portrays bitchy characters may inspire hate mail, but those who are seen as the girl next door, like Schaeffer and Saldana, will attract fans who are potentially more dangerous. Those who kill "may feel that they are going to be united in heaven, or that the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Fatal Obsession with the Stars | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...sweetest little thing?" Calvin whispers. "I'd like to make a pet of her." Suddenly the mother rhino wheels and storms at the guests, who jump away from the fence. As Chula nudges the baby back to the safety of the tall grass, the raspy warning grunt of a wild rhinoceros saws through the quiet of the south Texas twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio Grande Valley, Texas | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...sweetest of all cups, the Eastern title, would soon find a home in Cambridge. Two weeks after their win over Penn, the Harvard heavies won the Eastern title in Worcester. The Harvard lightweights did the same. On May 21 in New Preston, Ct., the Radcliffe heavies bagged the Eastern crown...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Some Memorable Dates | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

...belief that tough guys are really decent guys at heart may be, as Norman Mailer once remarked, "one of the sweetest thoughts in all the world." And a necessary one. For, as the novelist also observed, "there's nothing more depressing than finding a guy as tough as nails and as mean as dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tough Love | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Melrose netted the sweetest goal of the week--a tip-in that gave Harvard a 2-1 lead in the first period against St. Lawrence--but it was MacDonald's skill that provided...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Icemen Invasion Colors ECAC Crimson | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

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