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Word: waiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the kinder, gentler items like the child-care tax credit may have to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's Been a Certain Liberation | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...prohibiting adultery will be hard to keep. This, and his remark about politicians resembling actors, suggest that Julian may grow up to be a successful public man who gets entangled in a sex scandal. Given Wilson's production rate, it is unlikely that readers will have to wait long to find out. Incline Our Hearts is the first novel of a proposed trilogy. If the next two are as good as the first, readers will have a small classic on their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Triumph of Trying-Really-Hard | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...into a two-counter shop near my apartment. One bin holds small yellowish apples that have played host to a worm or two. Ten minutes later I find better apples at a private stand. I wait in line three minutes and buy a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

BEHAVIOR: Can' t- wait, don' t- listen, won' t- stop kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 3 JANUARY 16, 1989 | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...leader of the FBI team, Willem Dafoe (who played the martyred sergeant in Platoon and the humanist Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ) is a stick of righteousness waiting to explode. But the movie also finds recesses where human dignity and compassion wait to be summoned. It is alert to the shifting emotional weight and moral responsibilities in any relationship, especially in the quiet interplay of Hackman and McDormand, two ordinary middle-aged people searching awkwardly to be of use to each other. Hackman caps a brilliant career here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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