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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Imagine giving a car dealer money for a car and having him tell you to come back in two weeks to see what you've bought," said Menzies. "That's what the idea of a preliminary vote essentially...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Chelsea Teachers Challenge BU Takeover of Schools | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

...panic has spread beyond the common fan. The state legislature is in emergency session. They're voting to donate their salaries to Bruce if he stays. Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy offers to give him her new car. Gov. Dukakis offers his T pass if he stays...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Relax Bruce; Boston Says, 'Don't Do It' | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...Sometime before, a dispute among three teenage girls in Miami over a vandalized Cadillac erupted into gunfire and a 15-year-old girl was mortally wounded by a shot from a .9-mm automatic. In Houston last month, a Colombian man and woman were shot execution-style in their car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter in The Streets | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Like Airplane!, Naked Gun turns everything into a gag. Drebin can't park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of the rote plots and personalities that characterize endless episodes of TV cop shows...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Going Great Guns | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...considered booking two places in a local retirement home, events came along to remind me of my own mortality. First, my previously annoying little sister now sported a set of contact lenses, a bustline, a pair of car keys and a linebacker-boyfriend whose neck was larger than my thigh. One night while I sat watching David Letterman, my sister and her beau-immense stumbled into the house after a night...

Author: By Matt Pinsker, | Title: Back and Better Than Ever | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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