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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eleven seconds after UVM's Toby Ducolon was sent to the box for interference, Lappin took a pass from defenseman Brain McColgan and drilled a slapshot past Cat goalie Mike Milham...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Saints Prey Upon Cats, 4-2 | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...need to stay out of the penalty box, limit the number of shots and play a tight defensive game," Gilligan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Lawrence, Vermont Will Clash in a Skating Exhibition | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...opposing teams. But it also proved toRPI Coach Mike Addesa that creating penalties andsetting up four-on-four situations-a peculiar RPIstrategy--did not favor his squad at all. Toaccomplish this, his players would play deaf tothe whistle and wait for the officials to sendsome players to the box...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Headed for a Garden Party | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...past decade movie-theater queues have resembled waiting lines at a sock hop. Teenagers stormed the box office, and Hollywood cloned films in their image. Their favorite genres -- sci-fi fantasies, peekaboo sex farces, gross-out horror movies -- multiplied on the screen, and sequel followed sequel followed sequel. Who needed adults? Those forgotten creatures stayed home with their TV movies and VCRs. For them the local multiplex was a teenagers' tree house bearing the sign GROWNUPS STAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adults Also Permitted | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

They are going back because Hollywood is making movies for them. Not one of 1987's top ten hits was aimed primarily at the youth market. Nor are films with brand names for teens guaranteed success: John Hughes' youth parables have lost some of their box-office luster, and the four films produced last year by Steven Spielberg were financial fizzles. Says MPAA President Jack Valenti: "The movie world no longer need be girdled round by boundaries set $ by the very young." Which is not to say that movies are better than ever -- only that, for the moment, Porky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adults Also Permitted | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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