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Word: wretchedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The era brought forth a generation of fierce reformers and a new brigade of muckraking reporters, like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. It was Jacob A. Riis, a New York City newspaper photographer working the police beat, who first recognized how photography could be enlisted in the cause. His job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conscience 1880-1920 | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

The results of the development have been chaotic and in some cases tragic. Machadinho, for instance, was supposed to be a model settlement village with gravel roads, schools and health clinics. But when a surge of migrants traveled down BR-364 to Machadinho in 1985, orderly development became a pell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Before hitting the beach, some lucky crabs, whose tough, circular shells conjure images of tiny oceangoing Darth Vaders, pair up, with the smaller male crabs locking themselves atop the females' spiny shells with special pincers. For many less fortunate males, who vastly outnumber the females, the frenzy is more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Jersey Shoreline | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

The hostage scenario has become numbingly familiar. The sadistic videotapes of frightened captives, followed by threats of execution. The White House dispatching naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Again: A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S. | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

In the platinum ZIP codes of Holmby Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the noise of wretched excess is everywhere. "Teardowns" are transforming the shape of some of the most voluptuous real estate in the U.S. Down tree-lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Million-Dollar Birthday Cakes | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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