Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately agrees to live out their remaining years together, just as they had always expected. She finds the infidelity hard to bear, but not as shattering as her husband's lethargic confession that he has renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides...
...cameo, a gem of political theatrics last week in the Rose Garden burnished by sunshine and the lovely memory of every American's uncle, the late Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. It was too tiny a melody for the tin ears of the networks. And yet, those few moments foreshadowed the very bugle call of Ronald Reagan's campaign to reclaim the Oval Office...
...turns clever, dominating, quick-tempered and stubborn, British Industrialist Sir James Goldsmith, 51, rarely fails to excite speculation over his next takeover target. Last week the balding, staccato-voiced conglomerateur offered Continental Group, a company that had 1983 revenues of $5 billion from products that range from tin cans to life insurance, $50 a share for its stock, or $2.1 billion in cash. Said he: "It is a very good company. We admire the management...
That Juan Carlos is seen now as the architect of Spain's transition and has achieved such international recognition is mildly amazing, considering his enigmatic presence at the time of Franco's death. Opponents called him a puppet, a tin soldier. They chided him for walking well behind the 5 ft.-3 in, general so as not to embarrass him with his courtly 6 ft.-2 in. frame. He was once called "the son Franco never had." Wags named him "Juan the Brief" because his public statements were short and infrequent...
...average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high as on the three networks. Among the offenses: space battles in the Disney film The Black Hole, swordplay in an adaptation of Stevenson's Kidnapped, fistfights in Rin Tin Tin and the cartoon antics of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs...