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Word: unicorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is a minor fault. Kaufman, Hainsworth, Hatch and Moore combine for a performance as special and unique as the unicorn in Laura's Glass Menagerie...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: A Touch Of Glass | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...brokered convention, with party leaders wheeling and dealing through multiple ballots, may be the modern political equivalent of the unicorn: long sought but never actually sighted. A more plausible, though still unlikely scenario is for a period of confusion and bartering that begins midway through the primary season, when no candidate looks likely to garner a majority of delegates. That could open the way for a draft movement for someone now on the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...acquitted of the abuse charges, and today he has joint legal custody of his daughter. He also has a new book, A Question of Innocence (Unicorn Publishing; $16.95), in which he maintains that the increased determination by authorities to uncover child sex abuse has had a less wholesome consequence: a raft of false charges that devastate the lives of those accused. Spiegel is not the only one to complain. Three years ago, 24 adults in the small city of Jordan, Minn., were charged with sexually abusing children. But only one was convicted, while two were acquitted, and charges against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sexual Abuse or Abuse of Justice? | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn't know such a creature existed. She was like a unicorn . . ." "Except that they like unicorns," she cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

NATURALLY, JACK FEELS pretty awful about the whole thing, seeing as it was his fault that Lilly ever got to touch the now stiffening unicorn in the first place. So with the help of a somewhat lustful fairy queen, the forest knave acquires the requisite set of used armor and hauls his butt over to a humungous oak tree, which serves as Evil's headquarters. His main goal is to save his girlfriend and the last remaining unicorn in the universe, both of which have been captured by the forces of darkness. If he fails, the sun will never rise...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

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