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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PEOPLE UNITED will never be defeated"--that's what they were yelling in the streets of Cambridge the night I decided to come to this school. What idiocy The people united in Poland got their united ass kicked: the people united in EI Salvador, and 13,000 a year get shot separately Even it a lot more people in a lot more places unite, the chances are not so good. Original sin, mushroom cloud, freezing in the dark when the oil runs out--name your poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

...more Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Corcoran went into private law practice in 1941 and, using his contacts made in Congress and federal agencies, successfully represented major businesses and defense contractors. Periodically accused of influence-peddling, he once remarked, "Every time I wag my ass on the Hill, someone reads cosmic importance into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 21, 1981 | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash you a frigid smile and when you're not looking they stick a needle in your arm or a tube up your ass. And they're always balling the doctors, particularly when you're in pain and you need them. Used to lie in my hospital bed and wish I had a big bowie knife...

Author: By David B. Edelstern, | Title: More Merriment | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...years through variations of the same film--Bogart, Gable, Redford, Eastwood--Nicholson strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace and worldly violence are often inextricable...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...good feeling because a play goes through the hands of so many people that you don't really feel it's your own. Playing Mark was a way of reclaiming it." The kinship between Davis and his character is clear--both had to achieve a balance between "Kicking ass and kissing...

Author: By Aldrich N. Potter, | Title: A World of Ordered Chaos: Behind the Lines With Bill Davis | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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