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Word: couched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior uses anxious violin chords to underline the confessions of an alienated couch potato who sees "the world through the TV Guide" and muses, "I know I'm missin' something/ But I don't know what it is." Case 795 (The Family) is an unflinching view of a domestic squabble that ends with the wife "bleeding on the floor in the kitchen/ With cake on her fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

There was my dad in the recliner, insisting that the Sox would lose. There was my mom on the couch, saying little. And then there was my brother, myself and our two friends--possibly the four most fanatical fans on the planet, alternating between praying and cursing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Serious Business | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

David Nuzum '96 didn't expect to spend his first year in Eliot House sleeping on a couch in his common room...

Author: By Daniel I. Silverberg, | Title: Overcrowded Rooms Test Student Agility | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

...about 10 miles a night in the mincing steps she takes across the Music Hall expanse. Playing the tacky chanteuse Delores DeLago in mermaid fin and motorized wheelchair, she races around like a Betty Andretti. She'll go supine on the stage, as if it were her analyst's couch, then busily buff the floor with her derriere. If there were windows in this grand Art Deco auditorium, she'd do them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Learning to forgive oneself. Very important nowadays for revolutionaries with a criminal bent. What a pathetic trajectory from the '60s to the '90s: from revolutionary slogans to New Age psychobabble, from Frantz Fannon to Robert Fulghum, from the thrill of the underground to the banalities of the couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From People Power to Polenta | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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