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Word: windedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The bold was Husband No. 4 Peter Holm, 40, a onetime Swedish pop star who, after being kicked out of their former home, picketed Collins in protest. JOAN, YOU HAVE OUR $2.5 MILLION, 13,000-SQ.-FT. HOME WHICH WE BOUGHT FOR CASH DURING OUR MARRIAGE, read his long-winded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Daytime's Steamy New Soap | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

The Gipper may yet have a rabbit or two to pull from his helmet, like a treaty with the Soviet Union to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles. There will be vetoes, and Reagan may still have to order the fleet here and there in the Persian Gulf, acts of institutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Seven-Year Itch | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Benn's story, that of a comfortably aging man pulled into the muck of life by an avid and avaricious young wife, was hilarious when Chaucer included it in The Canterbury Tales, and it still seems none the worse for wear. Bellow's contribution to this hoary tale lies in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victims Of Contemporary Life MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

The name of Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies may elicit sneers from cynics who sense pretension in its long-winded title. It may even evoke images of androgenous New Yorkers waving their clove-cigarettes in the air as they emphasize a point about the role of relativism...

Author: By Phyllida Burlingame, | Title: VES: More Than Just a Major | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Omar Anwari is Cabinet minister to the last Afghan King, who was deposed in 1973. The three Anwari children are refractions of Omar's bitterness and fanatical loyalty. Mangal, a journalist, becomes a revolutionary. Saira, at once the most sophisticated and confused, shuttles uneasily between her own nation and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Pleasures and Promises | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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