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Word: bananas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick foot work. Apparently, Speed's affinity for fruit is supposed to be comic, but all he ever does with the apples is eat them and the banana-rape is a tired...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

...Chevy Chase, the road to success has been paved with gold banana peels. As one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on NBC'S Saturday Night Live, Chase stumbled to stardom with his pratfall impressions of President Ford, and NBC gave him a $2 million-plus contract to create and star in three of his own TV specials. The Chevy Chase Show, which airs this week (May 5,10:00 p.m. E.D.T.), is a series of quick-cut sketches devoted to TV itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Chevy Slips into Prime Time | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...life--is marked by the progression from her first husband, Warren, who is domineering, yet charming and from whom she can never entirely escape, to Leonard, the wealthy lawyer of radical causes, who much more subtly and sympathetically manipulates her, and finally to Boca Grande. This, a banana republic which Charlotte felt, in some dim way, was the "cervix of the world" through which her child, lost of history, would also pass...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Immaculate of History, Innocent of Politics | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...women from New Haven took every match decisively, continuously putting away Radcliffe's too shallow volleys. Sally Roberts got breadsticked, 6-1, 6-1, by Yale's number one singles player Eve Ellis, while at number two Ditzler was felled 6-2, 6-2 by last season's top banana for Yale, Sue Graham...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Racquetwomen Dip, Yalies Cruise, 9-0 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...more the participation than the winning," McDermott said last night. For Malone, it was more the banana...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

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