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Word: womanizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman was just completing a heroin sale in Seattle when from around the corner whooshed a couple of cops mounted on bicycles. They quickly arrested the suspected drug dealer, called for a patrol car and had her hauled off to jail. In the woman's purse was a letter from a friend warning her to keep an eye peeled for cops on bikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seattle: Wheelers and Dealers | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING HIS OWN HAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Exploring The Real Old West | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...woman share secrets, make each other laugh and squirm. What a novel idea for a movie! Two funny, poignant movies: sex, lies, and videotape and When Harry Met Sally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 134 No. 5 JULY 31, 1989 | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...time when you can hardly initiate a handshake without a note from your doctor, conversation is not just a white- collar mating dance; it is the most intimate form of safe sex. Over the telephone or a restaurant table, a man and a woman expose their emotions, exchange seminal fears and desires, make each other laugh and sob -- all without touching any organ but the heart. Talk is the consummation devoutly to be wished; no wonder they call it intercourse. It is confession without penance, therapy on the cheap. It is also, in the right mouths, the last civilized popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...each other's sentences," Crystal says, "and he finishes my lunch" -- meets the challenge of making a compulsive Lothario not just likable but impishly seductive. And Ephron, a helpful Heloise of emotional heartburn, perks the script with clever answers to modern problems. How long should a man hold a woman after making love to her? "Somewhere between 30 seconds and all night." What doubt nags at any woman who lets Mr. Right get away? "You'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband." What is the guilty secret of married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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