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Word: veering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctrinal blip or scintilla of sin is closely monitored. Nowhere is this more true than at Bethel, the sect's Brooklyn headquarters. By Franz's account, reading or studying of the Bible is considered "evil" unless conducted in authorized discussions following Watch Tower doctrinal guides, lest staffers veer into error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witness Under Prosecution | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Ripploh is not the only young German film maker to veer sharply from the baroquely stylized work of Fassbinder and Herzog. Four of the five new German films in the U.S. are rooted in headline reality. Christiane F. is based on interviews with a 15-year-old Berlin prostitute and heroin addict that appeared in the newsmagazine Stern. It is a tale to blanch the parental conscience, for here are children barely in their teens who whore, steal, shoot up and, too often, drop dead. Chic-pretty, lipsticked and long-haired, dressed in Annie Hall punk, negotiating puberty on stork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bravado Is Their Passport | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Ordinarily one tends to suspect movies that veer too radically from the intent of their original sources. But Whose Life remains true to the highest purpose of the play: to set forth with honesty, passion and wit the arguments for and against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Right Spirit, Wrong Cause | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...amazing achievement-it has been only 3 years since the sly and always hungry feline burst full-grown from the head and hand of Davis. This hero is a cat who is both thorny and funny, a rogue who somehow never crosses the line into villainy. His views veer 180° from Snoopy's gentle romanticism. "Spring is here," Garfield observes. "Big, fat, hairy deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Bubbles in the Sky | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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