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Word: barred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, sea In the ramshackle one-story bar racks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Doubly Difficult Apple to Pluck | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...years Manhattan Poet Joel Oppenheimer, now 47, took exactly the same route from his Greenwich Village apartment to his local bar, the Lion's Head. One day he tried a more circuitous route, walking along different streets. Midway to the bar he broke out in a cold sweat, suffering from heart palpitations, jelly legs and vertigo. "I had no control over my body," he said. "It was total panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Panic of Open Spaces | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...fellow Met fans at a playoff game. Severe agoraphobics stick to familiar routines and rarely venture out alone. When they do travel, they usually bring along a friend, child or dog as a prop. "For years," says Oppenheimer, "I was terrified of a new bed, chair, bar, room or restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Panic of Open Spaces | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

YALE at PRINCETON: The Tigers haven't defeated Yale since a year or two before my Bar Mitzvah, and it's about time for some of those $18.75 savings bonds to be cashed...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: What Can You Do But Sigh? | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

Joanne Cipolla plays her guitar wrong. With the strings in an unidentified open tuning (Cipolla can't tell you what chord it is), she reaches up around the neck with her left hand and plays over the top, fingering bar chords in a style that audiences invariably compare with Joni Mitchell...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Upside-Down Pineapple Guitar | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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