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Word: tearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care very much one way or another. Even so, Updike's old white writing magic has not lost its skill. He can still set a domestic scene, describe a sleeping child or evoke the sights and sounds of the marriage bed-and-bored sharply enough to bring a tear to the eye of the recording angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncouples | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted, "Hey, Ma, I made it. I made it, Ma." Ma nodded and wiped away a tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Italian Stallion | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...have never been able to get a real look at Harvard since then (1970)," he says, "It still looks like the place where there was tear gas in the air, there was rampant hatred in the air, and emotions were all on edge...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: The Education of Jim Fallows | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...critical exegeses of his projects. But from the start he has had an instinctive understanding of Kong's strength. When he is in full cry on this subject, one feels a bit like cheering him on, as one does when Kong takes off on his final tear. Dino is, after all, the representative of a misunderstood, often unloved species: the movie producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...crowd stood back in respect. "Got your tickets right here," he said, producing from his pocket tickets for the best seats in the house. "Sorry I can't let you in through here, but rules are rules. Seems you need an advanced degree to tear tickets nowadays. "We all got a laugh out of that. Joe Perkins just smiled...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Who REALLY Runs Professional Wrestling? | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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