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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the end of the '80s, Cruise, 27, is the movies' biggest star, with nothing but promise on the horizon. Just ask two masters he has apprenticed with: Dustin Hoffman, the decade's most lauded actor, and Paul Newman, the last golden exemplar of Hollywood star quality. "There's no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

The ballad throbs to a climax, the two singers look at each other in a confession of mutual need, and the title line of mock-bragging devotion, You're Nothing Without Me, reverberates from the rafters. All in all, a classic first-act finale -- except that in this musical the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hello Again to the Long Goodbye | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

When dizzying change sweeps the world, foreign-policy experts often turn to history to find precedents for the headlines. They want to reassure themselves that there is nothing entirely new under the sun and perhaps even to find clues to the future. The current upheavals in Eastern Europe have inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

They had reached safe harbor on a sail and a prayer. In the past 21 months alone, more than 40,000 Vietnamese boat people pitched their way across the South China Sea to Hong Kong, mostly in rickety, open vessels. Last week 51 of them -- eight men, 17 women and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Dashing Their Dreams | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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