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Word: boyfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irony this New Year's Eve. It is his first night as manager of the Charleston Club, which is a laundry for money amassed by a very violent mob. But Mike has other worries: "I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old ( religious maniacs looking for a fight, and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about." The fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between them. They spike their drinks with faith baiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...argument began, police say, when Beverli Black accused her boyfriend of spending their last $15 on crack. She stormed out of their one-room apartment in Freeport, L.I., late one night last week to try to borrow some food stamps. Daren Jenkins, 23, an unemployed cabinetmaker, stalked over to the bed where Black's son Batik was sleeping. High on crack, an extremely potent and addictive form of cocaine, Jenkins allegedly beat the little boy to death. Batik would have been three years old this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: the House Is on Fire | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...dramatics at Stanford University lasted three years. "Every day was a happening," she says. "I wore an elf costume -- red pantaloons, vest and hat, all festooned with blue pompons -- and lived with my boyfriend in a tree house, dining on vegetables we stole from the experimental garden. One day, for a linguistics presentation, we threw pies at each other, then tossed tiny parachutes at the other class members. The professor gave us both A's." And now in May '68, here is La Pasionaria Sigourney, set to exhort the students with quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...cinematography reaches its peak in the paddle-off between Paul and Lili's boyfriend, Liu (Wang Xiao) as the former fights to prove himself true to his heritage and the latter to retain his girlfriend and his title as ping-pong champ. Showing the anguish and competitiveness of both contenders, this scene goes beyond a mere ping-pong contest and touches both characters at their souls...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Great Wall | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...keep a small rock my boyfriend gave me!" Miss Somewhere Else said...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

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