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Word: teapots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eccentric Teapot by Garth Clark (Abbeville; $29.95). Why pour your oolong from a plain pot when you can pour it out of Brooke Shields' head? Whether they are teapots for art's sake or art for the sake of taking tea, ceramics critic Clark has cataloged the fun. The Kentucky Fried Teapot has the head of Colonel Sanders and the body of a plucked chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tidings Of Color and Joy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...members of Congress willing to protect them. House Banking Committee member Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who refuses to take PAC money, believes this may be the disgrace that brings down the current congressional establishment. "We're looking at an eleven-figure fraud story that's bigger than Teapot Dome," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have We Gone Too Far? | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...doughnuts have been eaten. Umbrellas now drip in the classroom's corner as the vigil continues. A jar of instant Maxwell House coffee and a plastic teapot sit untouched on the floor...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Walking to Take Back the Night | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...these pages, TIME presents exclusive photographs of the salvage operation, the Titanic itself and some of the recovered treasures. Among the objects brought up by French divers: a bronze teapot and coffeepot, a leather valise, a rococo vase, a statue of a cherub from the Titanic's first-class grand staircase and a ship's safe, which may contain a fortune in jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

More than 100 members of the Reagan Administration have had ethical or legal charges leveled against them. That number is without precedent. While the Reagan Administration's missteps may not have been as flagrant as the Teapot Dome scandal or as pernicious as Watergate, they seem more general, more pervasive and somehow more ingrained than those of any previous Administration. During other presidencies, scandals such as Watergate seemed to multiply from a single cancer; the Reagan Administration, however, appears to have suffered a breakdown of the immune system, opening the way to all kinds of ethical and moral infections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morality Among the Supply-Siders | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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