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Word: couch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowley took off the jacket of his expensive-looking, continental three piece suit and leaned back on the couch. He talked about the great increase in overtly-homosexual theatre in New York since Boys opened off Broadway (where it is still running) in 1968. "These plays come along," he said, "and homosexuals rush and descend on them-just like taste-makers anywhere else. But that audience runs out, and after two weeks these shows have to be playing to Mr. and Mrs. America...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Mart Crowley and 'The Boys' | 3/25/1970 | See Source »

Bill's mother confesses: "We knew nothing. Billy used to come in after a high, but he would act animated and alert. A couple of times we found him passed out on the couch. We just figured he was tired. He could have stayed right on the couch and died of an overdose. We wouldn't have known." Adds his father: "Last summer, we thought Billy was on something. We hoped it was pills or pot. What if it's heroin? What can you do then? You just kind of wish it away. Now I feel as if I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kids and Heroin: The Adolescent Epidemic | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...never taken a penny since. Perfect." After a few nights with friends, Liza moved into the sheltered, regimented Barbizon Hotel for Women. Liza says: "I went bananas!" After that-two nights on a park bench in Central Park and then onto another friend's couch for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Liza, Gasping for Breath | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...Penn couch Jim Salfi called it ". . . one of the greatest upsets in hockey history." ". . . deeply humiliating" said the Harvard CRIMSON. ". . . shocking" added News and Views of Harvard Sports...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Stickmen Seeking Revenge In Game Against Quakers | 2/21/1970 | See Source »

...evening in Bel Air, Calif, Peter, Henry and Jane Fonda sprawl on a broad couch in the library of Henry's handsome house. Opposite them are TIME'S Mary Cronin, Jonathan Larsen and Jay Cocks. Red Eric beer foams in glasses on the coffee table. A tape recorder runs. Jane sums it up as the conversation develops: "This is really one of the first times in as long as I can remember that the three of us have been together and talked about acting." For the last half-hour of the session, Peter lambastes the Establishment press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Quiet Evening with the Family | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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