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Word: madison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losing teeth, he was one of those ignorant bastards they have to teach hygiene to, you know? But in the situation, I had to respect him, you know. So we are walking in the jungle, looking out mostly for animals and the Okie looked like he was walking down Madison Avenue for the first time, and he tripped over a vine. A branch or something. And what really happened, he tripped a punji stick and took...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...Judith Shaak-the dark-haired young woman a little off to one side, whose restless, measuring eyes say teacher-this exuberant encounter between the very living and the very dead is no random happening. The little girls chasing lizards around the sandy grave of Madison Starke Perry (1814-1865), the fourth Governor of Florida, and the boys swigging Coke while making tombstone rubbings with brilliant red crayons are members of the Enrichment Class for Life and Death at the Myra Terwilliger Elementary School, now in session. And Mrs. Shaak-in her third year of leading dry runs through the Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...preconceptions and snap opinions at every turn. The process begins with the opening scenes. When Joanna tells Ted she is walking out, the film is, for a while, completely on her side. Joanna is sensitive, beautiful and demonstrably deprived of her own identity. Ted is a cagey, unfeeling Madison Avenue adman who cares only about the big account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise, Ted talks only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grownups, A Child, Divorce, And Tears | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Elizabeth A. Fries Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1979 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...addition to her blistering performances in Massachusetts high school meets. Forman made regular appearances on the tough indoor circuit as early as 1975, but points out that she took her lumps before burning up the competition. "I remember my first big indoor meet at Madison Square Garden," Forman said, "I guess they could tell I was pretty green; someone gave me the elbow five seconds into the race...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Versatile Runner Recovers to Pace Harriers | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

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