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Word: belter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the lovelorn belter of the 1940s ballad Don't Get Around Much Anymore, more and more Americans are becoming chronic stay-at-homes. The high price of a night on the town is a contributing factor, but the lure of an evening in the house is more apt to center on what their owners call media rooms or entertainment centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Entertainment on the House | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile. Carolyn Mignini, as Anna Held, is a seraphic soprano; Mary Catherine Wright, militancy incarnate as Emma Goldman; and Trey Wilson makes a bully "T.R." And in a gentle zephyr of a show, Lynne Thigpen is a bracing typhoon belter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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