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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Classic Muddle | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...readers to the bizarre saga of the Wolff family. Although these two narratives have kinship and blood in common, they spring from dissimilar circumstances. The parents split up when the brothers were young. Geoffrey stayed east with his flamboyantly fraudulent father; Tobias drifted west with his mother, a lively woman who, the son writes, suffered from a "strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deceptions | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...past lives or about her book or about her film -- projects that she had devoted no small measure of time and effort to -- she just couldn't be bothered. So I thought to myself: Why are you on this show, lady? There was not a gun at this woman's head. I have less and less patience for that kind of behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...author of the pamphlet blames anti-abortionists for wanting to keep women in the "enslavement of pregnancy" when it is often the woman who, knowing the risks, consents to sex in the first place...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Clouding the Abortion Issue | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

Still, she says, "I was pretty lucky. I lived with a woman." Loneliness and isolation are major problems for the teachers. "There's no stimulation out there at night," says Brown...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Teaching Children in the Heart of Africa | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

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