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Word: beers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manon strikes out restlessly and blindly. She is fierce and jealous in her demands for her mother's love, but when she runs away from home for a day she flees something greater and more upsetting than a simple realization of her mother's independence. At 13, Manon chugalugs beer, puffs cigarettes and inhales pot, but none of these divertissements satisfies her. Indeed, they are completely irrelevant to Manon's dark, seething inner life...

Author: By Debra K. Holmes, | Title: Loose Morality | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...their big idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco's Mission District. Now everyone is bored, though. The T shirts finally came, but no one feels like wearing them. Dullness has lost its madcap charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Shall we, the good and dull of the earth, attempt to compete with the attention getters?" "Hurray for meat loaf!" "People who hang-glide are nuts!" "Yeah, you know what's fun, by God? Petting your dog, tuning up the old Chevy Nova." "More beer!" "Beer here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...dull. Mountains are dull, birds are dull, flowers are dull, they don't hang around in fern bars trying to impress people." The producers of To Tell the Truth flew Glanting to Manhattan, where, he says, it felt a little odd to meet "some guy from a beer-tasting club who was going through the same kind of media ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Life and Death of a Good Joke | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

While some of you were baking under southern skies yesterday or heading back to Cambridge after a week of beer, sun-tan lotion and oblivion, the Harvard women's lacrosse team was basking in the glory of a 7-6 win over the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Laxwomen Trounce Penn, 7-6 | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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