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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the professional calibre of some of the entrants of the race, Rhodes says the Bonne Bell "is just for fun," and the atmosphere at the Boston Common--where the race began and ended--was cheerful and supportive. Crowds lining Com- monwealth Ave. cheered on the runners as they finished the last leg of the 6.2 mile race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 7300 Women Run Through City In Fifth Staging of Bell Race | 10/13/1981 | See Source »

That conflict begins simply: Matt wants Sally to come away with him, and Sally wants Matt to leave alone. But as Wilson's smoothly polished conversational writing advances, with plenty of one-liners and an occasional sight gag. Talley's Folly turns from a straightforward romantic sit-com into a much more sensitive character evocation. Like a stripped-down Ibsen drama, it forces its two characters to excavate the most airless tunnels of their memories...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Where Politics and Emotion Meet | 4/25/1981 | See Source »

...drops (Things will never let up for Luciano now that he's published) pile up (I'll never forget breakfast with Al and Casper) on each other overwhelming (Sissy has always known how to tell a joke) all other forms of expression, the name dropper's ruin is com-(Charlie and Di are such a perfect couple) plete...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Really, Ronald, They Repulse Me | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...remove from the vehicle's weight. In 1977 GM devised the RTS ill, a flashy bus with clean lines and an optional 1 wheelchair lift. Grumman, the company that built o the lunar landing module, bought Flxible and produced a low-slung, 26,000-lb., 48-seat bus, com-Splete with a kneeling mechanism for the handicapped and an electric sign that beamed HAVE A GOOD DAY. Grumman's Flxible 870 with its light 350-lb. A-frame undercarriage began rolling off the assembly line in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Fx Those Flxibles? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made an interesting TV sit-com: the wacky misadventures of a loving and long-suffering nightclub owner and his zany wife, the star of the club's act. The twist, of course, was that husband and wife were both male, the wife a flamboyant transvestite. Still, Edouard Molinaro directed the film with a light touch, making Renato and Albin just another daffy couple who had a way of getting themselves into embarrassing situations. La Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

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