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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strip in this collection, Susie Derkins asks if she and her stuffed bunny can play with Calvin and Hobbes, who is drawn as a stuffed tiger until the last panel, when he muses, "Mr. Bun seems comatose. Did you notice?" It is tantalizing to wonder if Watterson will ever give us a look at Susie and a "live" rabbit looking back at Calvin...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Even in the era of the megamerger, this one was remarkable. No wonder the press and public were fascinated by the announcement that Time Inc. and Warner Communications would join to form the world's largest information and entertainment company. From Tokyo to Paris to Hollywood, media moguls sized up the new firm, trying to gauge its potential clout in the increasingly fierce international battle for the attention of readers, filmgoers and television viewers. The New York Times proclaimed that the union would "insure Time Warner a place in the 1990s as one of a handful of global media giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal Heard Round the World | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Lovers waltz in midair, a servant (Eric Idle) outruns a speeding bullet, and the King of the Moon (Robin Williams) literally loses his head in this wonder-filled fantasy from Terry Gilliam, late of Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 20, 1989 | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...Abbott has pitched five innings, allowing three hits and one run, striking out six (including A's terror Jose Canseco). One double-play ball got bollixed in his mitt, but he is under way. "You do wonder," he says, "if you're going to be the guy who was billed to make it, who never did, or if you're going to look back someday and say, 'This is where it all began.' But I've always dreamed, 'What if this happens,' and it always has. I've been lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dreaming The Big Dreams | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...editorial writer offended other minority groups when he attempted to project what he perceived to be problems of one group onto all of the minority organizations at Harvard. One must wonder why he wrote that these groups, as a rule, segregate themselves, when he attempts to cite no other examples other than the Asian American Association? Could it be he doesn't know what he's talking about...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Hardly Self-Segregation | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

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