Word: bingos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state of mind. With its amiable aliens getting their pop culture out of a TV set and its hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I can't spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie...
...leafstalks. (No, that's not it.) 2. the rhizome of any medicinal species of this plant, forming a combined cathartic and astringent. (That ain't it, either.) 3. the edible fleshy leafstalks of any of the garden species. (That's gross) 4. U.S. Slang. a quarrel or a squabble. (Bingo...
...there's always bingo. According to federal officials, the game has become a $400 million business on the nation's reservations, and for an obvious reason. Since federal laws give Indians some of the privileges of independent countries, gambling operations are free from state regulation. Thus while most church bingo games in the U.S. might permit a maximum prize of $250 a card, the Indian version can offer as much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime...
...order, Wagner wrote, "All non-military use permits and agreements will be cancelled. This includes, but is not limited to: unit functions, unit administrative nights, all-night schools, homeless and all sporting events, bingo, drum and bugle corps, elderly, registry or any other type of social or civic activity...
...SPEAK ENGLISH button (ah, that British irony!), the Jamaicans holding their heads high while across the world their island was being laid waste by Hurricane Gilbert. They continue at the Han River festival, where an American pulls off a major upset in an ineffable local version of bingo, in an area in which ruddy-faced stallkeepers wave customers toward pungent wild-boar barbecues, and the only signs in English say DRAFT BEER. And they reach their climax at the buffet breakfast in the Intercontinental Hotel, where they catch a glimpse of Florence Griffith Joyner spooning down her cereal (the Breakfast...