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Word: bimbo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the actors in Nothing On are so temperamental that the audience laughs as Dallas struggles hopelessly to take charge of his company. Sara Melson, who plays Brooke Ashton, who plays bimbo Vicki, stands out as the stereotypical half-brain-dead sexpot actress. Melson's over-exaggerated hand gestures, when she is Vicki, and her overly self-conscious, seductive walk as Brooke are amusing...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: And on the Eighth Day, God Took His Valium | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...wants to be respected for her talent," Dobson says. "She loves to be considered a beautiful, sexy young actress, but she's not a big-breasted Hollywood bimbo...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: From Box Office to Books: Salenger Off Camera | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...reprimanded by her boss, John Countryman, because of the clothes she favored for court appearances. Taylor, 25, has a penchant for short skirts, designer blouses, ornate jewelry and spike heels with colored hosiery. She says she has a flair for fashion. Countryman told her she looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she was fired. Though told that the dismissal reflected her poor job performance, she insists it was discrimination: "This is something that should not happen to anybody in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Hard Nose and a Short Skirt | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Start with the veracity of Joe Isuzu. Add the civic virtue of Al Capone, the greed of Ivan Boesky, the gentility of a China Seas pirate. Wed this paragon to a bimbo on the make with the vanity of a Marie Antoinette and a shopping lust that would turn a Beverly Hills divorcee envy-green. Multiply by ten and you have, approximately, the portraits of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos that Sterling Seagrave paints in this merciless account of the Filipino dictator's rise and fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mercenary Monsters From Manila THE MARCOS DYNASTY | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...tradition, will face the bimbo from the Big Ten, some hulking squad without a quarterback that will get run over on Rodney Peete street, in the Rose Bowl. And Notre Dame will go elsewhere to defend its top ranking...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Sugar Ray and College Super Bowls | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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