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Word: bathes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribe to a war dance. He has been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Larry Hagman: Vita Celebratio Est | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

When the Titanic went down, a banner headline in the Los Angeles Examiner read "Titanic Sinks; Many Millionaires Reported Drowned." Lord Lew Grade, who put up the money for Raise the Titanic, deserves, if not to drown, then at least to take a bath...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: SINK THE TITANIC | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...whores of Pocock, mothers of abomination, housewives wallowing in your adulteries, the Lord will smite you. Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...launches into his spiel as someone approaches, voice as quick and confident as the man who sells vegematics on UHF channels. "Spare a quarter, dime, nickel, anything?" he asks; depending on the audience, the end of his pitch differs. If it is an older person, Roger needs a bath, some food, and he surely does. When young people pass, Roger explains with perfect frankness that all he lacks is a few cents so he can get high, which he surely needs as well...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT it was safe to go back into a hotel, walk down an empty hallway into a furnished room and draw a warm bath comes Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, a brilliantly precise and demanding film that turns horror into art and art into horror. With obsessive simplicity, Kubrick manipulates the pieces of an ordinary world--a family, a kitchen, a bathroom, a television--to create an extraordinary image of terror and death...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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