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Word: vying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrary to some isolated pockets of popular belief, this man is far from stupid. When presented with Cameron's script he said, in a machine gun burst of inspiration, "Vy don't I play...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Cameron's Little Camera of Horrors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

Apollinaris W. Ger. 300,000 Strong, needling fizz and a warm, hea vy mineral flavor that suggests bicarbonate of soda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rating the Waters | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...both sides of the footlights, Mama is very much a family affair. The audience is composed largely of black families in their Sunday best, and onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy Higginsen (Troy's sister) and Kenneth Wydro (Higginsen's husband); Higginsen frequently plays the narrator, and her brother Randy plays the minister. After the rousing curtain call, Randy moves to the theater exit and, ever the good shepherd, greets the congregation as it leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Say Amen, Everybody | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Onion, onion, onion is all the word around here. If one has not yet heard of the Vidalia sweet onion, one will. In the past few years, knowledge of its succulence has table-hopped through gourmet circles all over the land. The Vidalia (pronounced Vy-dale-yuh) is status, and with its fame has come its nemesis: imitators. "The imitators are unscrupulous," says Walden. "I fully expect to hear somebody's packaging cabbages out there and calling them Vidalia onions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Onion, Onion Is All the Word | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...power than it possibly could in a 3,000-seat opera house. Brook has chosen his singers as much for their acting skills as for their voices. By tightening the plot he creates dramatic situations beyond anything envisioned by Bizet's librettists (Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) or even by Mérim&233;e. In this version, Carmen and Micaela, Don José's girlfriend from back home, are direct rivals and have a real fight when Carmen carves a bloody cross on Micaela's forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carmen, but Not Bizet's | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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