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Word: bed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "You know John, when I went to bed last night..." He said, "I hoped...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Three More Weeks | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...wearing his gabardine topcoat and his big straw hat," he prefers to turn up at irregular intervals to visit his grandson. The adolescent, by letting himself be caught in drinking and sex orgies, tries to convince his grandfather that they have nothing in common. When he goes to bed with a respectable girl only to shock his grandfather, he succeeds in making the old man accept his assigned role in the family. The grandson is left with "complicated feelings," because he finds out to his surprise that his grandfather had loved him, while he had only been a tool...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Tales From the Old South | 5/4/1977 | See Source »

...close a $10,000 deal. Says Chicago-based Airline Stewardess Sonja Lied: "When it goes off in a restaurant, people think I must be somebody very important." Still, the little boxes do have a knack for going off at the wrong moments: in church, at the symphony, in bed. Husbands, wives and lovers have been known to banish the gadgets from the bedroom. Could those little blurps and beeps be the voice of Big Brother? Says a photographer who has used the device: "To not wear a beeper conveys power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...gulps with unseemly haste, since she harbors a yen for Wally, but insists that Wally's wife Monica (Joanna Gleason) share in the swap frolic. Christmas Eve dinner at Wally's house is the appointed double-bed date. But the catch is that Monica has not been told, and she raises demihell. Gleason, a fumingly sexy comedienne, hurls the dinner plates to the table like Frisbees and shot-puts the turkey. Then, like the perfect suburban hostess, she climbs into bed with the others, where monogamous love conquers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unrequited Sin in Trenton | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...farce, is dotted with paralyzingly funny sight gags. One is provided by Lenny Baker, an immensely gifted clown, as he divests himself of each article of clothing, except his shorts (no one strips to the buff), with the chloroformed zeal of an inhibited zombie. Another is the foursome in bed poring over a sex manual as if it were the Das Kapital of the erotic revolution and deciding who is to be A, B, C and D in a horizontal power play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unrequited Sin in Trenton | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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