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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hack go but turned once again to New York City for a solution. This time, after having some 100 actresses read for the part, they hired Tanya Roberts, an off-Broadway hopeful whom the publicity handouts described as "streetwise." Said she: "I'm going to bust my ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Farewell to a Phenomenon | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...somebody went out and really broke his ass to try and put up a structure in a village and then was told he couldn't have cement today because the, province chief wants to build a new patio, and knows if he complains he's going to get shot or put in jail on some trumped-up charge, after a while he says. "Fuck it, why bother...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Everything We Already Know | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

Carmen observes this convention: all the performers dutifully roll their r's--all, that is, except Bunthorne and Grosvenor. As Bunthorne, Marty Fluger speaks his lines in a throaty, smart-ass tone that sounds like something between Groucho Marx and Frank Zappa--the Groucho resemblance heightens as Fluger lifts his eyebrows and flicks ashes off of an imaginary cigar. In the role of Grosvenor, Tim Reynolds, tall, tan, mustachioed, with his shirt unbuttoned to his navel, resembles nothing so much as a swinger in a single's bar. It would be the most natural thing for this Grosvenor to sidle...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Patience, Impatients | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

...years ago, a television weatherman in Louisiana opened with: "Looking at the big map, we can see a cold mair ass coming out of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 20, 1981 | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...mink eyes" on the cover of Elle. She bridges the gap between the white employers and her aunt and uncle, but the only mystical images which this gap produces are stereotypes. The other native women who periodically work for the Streets watch Jadine closely. They call her "fast-ass": she calls them all Mary because "all the baptized black women on the island had Mary among their names." Jadine is young, beautiful, talented but orphaned; she has lost her sense of past. Her traditions died with her mother, and those Black people who dwell comfortably in legend do not trust...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

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