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Word: tonight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four-year term as mayor of Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postscript | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

Take on Johnny Carson? Don't make us laugh. Failed challengers to the Tonight show king have piled so high in recent years that noting them has become an exercise in sadism. The surprise last week was that Pat Sajak, whose late-night talk show on CBS debuted to friendly reviews and better-than- expected ratings, proved instantly that he is the man to beat as Johnny's spiritual heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fresh Heir In Late Night | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just think. Tonight you're going to get to touch Steve Van Buren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just A Super Bowl of Crescendos | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...believe, but an age of amnesia. With his sweet voice, Reagan has numbed the nation. His speeches, the last of which, his "farewell address," took place last Thursday, have been trips to the dentist's office. Get the novocaine ready, Nancy, I'm speaking to the country tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Shut-Eye | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...gibbous moon -- a waxing gibbous, at that. Barry Lyons solves the mystery of the moon's phases for a visitor by drawing an impromptu diagram. "What was the moon last night?" Petricone bellows. "A waxing crescent," Karyn Woodbury shoots back as she assembles her celestial sphere. "What about tonight?" Petricone pushes. "A first quarter," pipes another voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lessons From On High | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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