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Word: tersely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Chancellor disclosed to committee members one unsettling fact, though: let ters sent to NBC on the Government-press conflict had been running 10 to 1 in favor of the Administration. Reaction at other networks and newspapers was much the same. "The media need to listen to the public on some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Anybody Want to Go to Grenada? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

People turn where they stand into living X rays just before they disintegrate entirely. Fire storms swallow up towns. The images of destruction, mild for a theatrical movie and practically gentle by any factual measure, are still startling by American television standards, and they pack force. Once this montage of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Nightmare Comes Home | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

John Sayles is ambling toward Holly wood legitimacy. Author of award-winning short stories, screenwriter of such intelligent exploitation movies as The Lady in Red and Alligator, gifted writer-director of the no-budget Return of the Secaucus 7 and the low-budget Lianna, Sayles has traded up. His new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trading Up | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

The code elevated Chandler's work and enlivens this collection of letters, meticulously compiled by his biographer. In some 330 communiques to friends, publishers and film executives, a life passes in review. There are references to young Raymond who wrote "clever and snotty" critiques for an English periodical. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Private Eye as Man off Letters | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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