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Word: burping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for The Ants to Revolt? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...likes of the glorious Shun Fujimoto and the notorious Boris Onischenko can march into the sunlight together. The Soviet army's Major Onischenko came forever to be known as Disonischenko after the fencing segment of the modern pentathlon, when a battery was discovered in his nose cone. Like a burp at a banquet, Boris' epee went off by itself and beeped a phantom touche. The major was briskly spirited away to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Perspiration Could Be Quantified | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...future breakfast staple, one can only expect candy for breakfast, synthetic fruit for artificially sweetened hot cereal, and microwaveable concoctions of bagels, pork, eggs and grease. Then again, given the alternatives, Coke may actually be a cylinder of hope rising out of the vast wasteland created by breakfast pollutants. Burp...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Snap, Crackle and Pop | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

Every time you "win" at quarters, some other guy gets to drink your beer, burp in your sober little face and insult...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha, | Title: Get on the Wagon | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...feast spread by director Douglas G. Fitch '81-'82 in his new production, Potluck Supper, is so rich in dramatic delicacies that it satisfies even the most discriminating palate. So it is with a burp and a goblet raised in toast that we hail the most inspired piece of dramatic lunacy in recent memory--a performance art extravaganza that should not be missed...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Feast for All | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

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