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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewer is likely to smile along too, until Woman invades Cheech and Chong territory for stock comic complications and a slapstick climax. By film's end, the viewer's hopes have shrunk along with wee Lily. The razzle-dazzle finale - and a barrage of TV commercials and guest appearances by Tomlin and Co-Star Charles Grodin - may be working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sanforized | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...secret of the militant left has been its patient cultivation of party members at the grass roots. Their technique? Simply to outlast and outtalk older party members. Under pressure from families or jobs, the elders are not as inclined as the militants to argue politics into the wee hours. Protests right-wing Dissident Leader Shirley Williams: "When the moderates resist, they are howled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howling Down the Old Guard | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...After Wee Carrion's hard-fought 4-2 decision, Mark Cooley and Jim Phills sealed this satisfying victory for the team. Cooley, a rampaging bull on the mat, dominated his opponent through the first period before a quick reverse and a pin 59 seconds into the second period. In the style that he has consistently shown throughout the season, Phills toyed with John Thornton, earning a 27-8 superior decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Handle Springfield Campbell, Cooley Shine, 25-13 | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

What it really took, though, was a disaster. On March 28, 1979, in the wee hours, Three Mile Island Unit Two began to hemorrhage, and for the next five or six days, Pennsylvania was no place for the nervous. Reporters are a foolhardy bunch, however, and they swarmed, writing endless reams of copy that would be sent home and pasted under enormous headlines about "Nightmare in Pennsylvania." The best story since Jim Jones et al, started mixing the Koolaid...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: And Meltdown for Dessert | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...news from the Bide-A-Wee home for semiretired movie stars of the '50s is that, all things considered, most of the folks are as lively as crickets. Liz and Rock, Kim and Tony and, of course, dear Angela, all seem enthusiastic about putting their slightly thickened selves on public display so that older members of the audience can check their memories of what once was with what now is, and youngsters can peer quizzically at their parents and speculate on the basis for such odd enthusiasms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Wall | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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