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Word: tc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growl. The exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Miatific Bliss in Five Gears | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Jennifer the Valley Girl, whose most strenuous exercise consists of cruising the local shopping mall, favors $64 pink L.A. Gear athletic shoes with Western-style, imitation-silver buckles. Arthur the accountant, who bicycles ten miles before picking up his calculator in the morning, wears TC Lite, Nike's $85 cycling model. His weekend tennis partner rushes the net in Reebok's $80 Italian-made Cosenza tennis shoes, with the brand name discreetly scrawled in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foot's Paradise | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

THIS WEEK IS SHAPING UP TC be one of those rare periods when the citizens of a country engage in some serious self-reflection. The United States is settling its collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEWITT | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...made in the city by Soviet Émigré Slava Tsukerman in a style that suggests a head-shop fire sale: garishly painted faces, a closeup of a heroin needle doing its dirty work, clever special effects computerized colors bright as an acic dream. Liquid Sky, now playing tc packed houses in a small Manhattan theater, is a two-hour act of imagination undisciplined by talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Some Reagan aides are hoping that Donovan will step aside to spare the Administration any possible embarrassment. But Donovan has other ideas. "I have no plans tc resign," he said last week. "I think I'm a political asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donovan: Insufficient Evidence | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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