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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope reigns supreme this year, as the Patriots have committed to improving the passing game with strong-armed quarterback Tony Eason and the drafting of tall, fleet wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes. New England tight ends received quite a jolt when they reported to mini-camp this summer and were told that they would be expected to catch passes as well as block this year...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Harvard, the Haven for Armchair Athletes | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...been implicated in the development of cataracts, a clouding of the eye lens. The rays chemically alter the lens' proteins, making them stick together and turning a clear lens murky. For protection during long exposure to the sun, doctors recommend wearing sunglasses, especially those that completely block ultraviolet, and wide-brimmed hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Sun's Dark Side | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...past. He was a child of the museum, which is why this posthumous show seems so much like a homecoming. He was steeped in a great tradition of which the exemplars were, in poetry, Stephane Mallarme; in painting, Henri Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which reached its height around 1890 under Mallarme's leadership and which, through its effect on Matisse and others, lay at the very root of 20th century art. For the symbolists, art was a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poetry In Glass and Steel | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together in places with 4-in.-wide butterfly-shaped splints of walnut, Nakashima's signature method of prompting the ancient to new service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Something Of a Druid | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...ambition and family connections. A cousin of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Dean variously referred to Mitchell as her father or stepfather after he began living with her widowed mother Mary Gore Dean. At HUD, Deborah Dean served as a sort of gatekeeper, controlling access to Pierce and enjoying wide powers to block projects. She told the Wall Street Journal that the rent-subsidies program was "set up and designed to be a political program ((and)) we ran it in a political manner." At a congressional hearing last week, she invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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