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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Durenberger insists he cleared the deal through the Federal Election Commission and has broken no Senate rules. But the Senate ethics committee is investigating whether he used the arrangement to launder his speaking fees.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Profiting from Promotion | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

America wants to go around with Tom Terrific -- that's how he looks, that's how he makes moviegoers feel. They hitched a ride with him in Risky Business and made him a star at 21. They sat in the cockpit of his F-14 as he swaggered through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Born on the Fourth of July is the true story of Ron Kovic, a kid from Long Island, N.Y., who got his spine shattered in Viet Nam. Back home he became bitter, questioning his old values of family and patriotism, before convincing himself he could best serve his country as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Stone's canniest directorial decision was to choose Cruise. The actor remakes himself in the film, trashing preconceptions, showing a range that astonishes. Ron's furious arguments with his family become primal screams of frustrated love. In the Mexican scenes, where Ron meets a prostitute who treats him gently, Cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

At first he was vibrant local color, one of the beautiful faces, a hunk for hire. Fast-forward through an early Cruise movie, and you will find him in the corner of the frame, a winsome thing in love with his body, exuding the jock wholesomeness of a baby Christopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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