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Word: thins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast. Daryl was a Hollywood ingenue-in-waiting. Soon they may become household manes. Both are "discoveries" of Charlie's Angels Producer Leonard Goldberg, 48, who is already talking about stretching Paper Dolls out into a series. On TV, your plots can never be too thin to make you rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 26, 1982 | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...York political hopeful and socialite, is reportedly amassing what experts believe will be the definitive collection of contemporary American first editions. Author Ray Bradbury favors such English novelists as Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh, and Bestseller Irving Wallace collects rarer chart toppers like a signed edition of The Thin Man, for which he paid $ 1,500 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Clothbound Collectibles | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...affable man, he makes friends--and remembers their names--with instinctive ease. He saw that his cause carried little weight among the administrators: he had no money. So Gavin, a practicing Catholic priest, turned to his last resource: people. He marshalled a vast army of eager volunteers out of thin air, and by the mid-'70s, hundreds of area professionals and students were helping him put his museum back together again. He once even piled the entire Harvard football team into a truck and sent it off to Brandeis to retrieve a long-lost collection...

Author: By Christopher S. Wood, | Title: Dollars and Scholars | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

...those of us who were weaned on traditional Gilbert and Sullivan--who wore thin the D'Oyly Carte records as children and faithfully attended all the local and high-school productions--this sentiment was not only irritating--it was difficult to countervail. In the face of ever-harder times for new playwrights and non-commercial theaters, how could we justify our inordinate fondness for the costly iron-clad stagings of ten Victorian crowd-pleasers. What could we say to defend our cherished tradition and its domination of artistic resources that would not make us sound like David Stockman...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Venetian Treat | 4/21/1982 | See Source »

...white-haired man who has farmed all of his adult life, tried to retain his jolly disposition. His son, who is tall, thin and bright, hovered in the background, staring glassy-eyed at what was happening. He watched a rotary hoe go for $950 (it would cost $3,500 new) and two irrigation motors for $155 (they would cost $1,000 if new); a small cultivator, bought ten years ago for $500, went for $2. Danny's wife Frieda, 33, stayed away from the auction. "She cried," Danny admitted. "She cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everything You've Got Is Gone: Texas Farmers | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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