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Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each participant recounts the details of his moving violation, whereupon his 40-odd classmates judge whether it was a mortal or just a venial infraction. "Thanks, David, for sharing that with us. I'm sure few of us were aware that you can actually purchase the STOP sign you've knocked over." So much emphasis is put on self- expression and broad-mindedness that at one point an instructor found himself equating drug taking with drinking, and upholding both. "You can do alcohol. You can do drugs," he admonished. "Just don't drive!" A stodgy European less accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...porn film. Here's a pop star who goes around in her concerts with sex oozing out, wearing a cross. Now Pepsi is saying to all the young people of the new generation, "Here is the person we want you to emulate and imitate." They can do that. They've got every right to give Madonna $10 million, put it on television every night if they want to. All I'm saying is "Don't ask me to buy Pepsi if you do it. You've got the right to spend your money where you want to; I've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Rev. DONALD E. WILDMON: Bringing Satan To Heel: | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...seriously, folks. An Alaska king crab just turned up in the Hudson River. Ever since the oil spill, they've been getting great mileage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late-Night Style Talk-show hosts are looking to the headlines for laughs | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...industry's top snob, Wylie makes it his duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've been published are worth nothing," he says with a Grottlesex stammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Naughty Schoolboy | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...attempts by the Democratic congressional campaign committee to target him for defeat in his suburban Atlanta district. While he awaits what is sure to be a protracted ethics inquiry, Gingrich will go on fighting. "If we get rid of Wright but keep 99% of the other Democrats, we've accomplished nothing," he says. "I'm ready for more action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Pit Bull | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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