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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freddy Krueger is America' s favorite homicidal maniac, and his Nightmare on Elm Street 4 is a late- summer box- office slash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

What's really funny is how popular this suburban psychopath has become to the very teens he would menace. Freddy Krueger would never have won the Mr. Congeniality award at Springwood High, but at the box office he has matured into Most Likely to Succeed. As embodied by Actor Robert Englund, he is the star of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Well, why not? History tells us that some of the West's most formidable ( outlaws were little more than postadolescent punks. And the surveys tell us that some of our most potent box-office attractions, especially among the teens of summer, are postadolescent hunks. Can't blame a producer for thinking there might be fun and profit in having a group of the latter play a gang of the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Opera | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spilling Over into the Streets | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Black delegates at the Republican Convention were about as common as photographers for Reader's Digest. Less than 3% of the delegates were black. But while black faces were rare on the Superdome floor, a conspicuously high number turned up on the podium or in the VIP box: Muhammad Ali, former Transportation Secretary William Coleman, and Fred Brown, chairman of the National Black Republican council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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