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Word: wonderments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene with her mom, proves she can still deliver the best movie tantrums since Margaret O'Brien hit puberty. It is possible that this Two Kids and a Baby will win audiences who went for last year's flock of natal-attraction movies. But Molly Ringwald still has to wonder: Will they love me for keeps the way they did when I was in the Pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Wilson's sleight of hand escaped the notice of most members of Congress, as well as of President Reagan, who signed it into law. And no wonder: the legislation that included the provision was 2,100 pages long, and it lumped together 13 appropriations bills that should have been passed individually. In one gargantuan gulp, the omnibus bill amounted to $603.9 billion, or nearly two-thirds of the total funding for Federal Government operations in fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget's Hidden Horrors | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Ambition and false identity, suicide and posthumous fame: these are the ingredients of high romance, and it is no wonder that investigators periodically ransack the material of Chatterton's brief career. The latest is Briton Peter Ackroyd, 38, biographer of T.S. Eliot and a novelist who specializes in the blending of history and imagination. In Hawksmoor he shuttled between the 18th century and the present. Chatterton ventures deeper ! into the time warp. It unfolds in contemporary England, concludes in the late 1700s and dallies in the Victorian epoch when an artist named Henry Wallis painted a dramatic portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...thought there would have been a large snowball fight or something," said Dan Alvarado '89, who was driving a shuttle bus during the blackout. Instead, Alvarado said, the Quad was "very quiet. I wonder what they were doing...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Power Outage Darkens Quad | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...wonder Yale had trouble with Cornell that year...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Yale Finally Breaks the Ice...and More Stuff I Think | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

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