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Word: couchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offense was to flee a quorum call. The raiders also came across Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker, who was waiting out the call in his office. But, cowed by Weicker's bulk (6 ft. 6 in., 235 lbs.), they backed off when he stoutly insisted on remaining on his couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Seizure on Capitol Hill | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Most viewers tuning in to the Winter Olympics will be limited to a vocabulary of three small o words: "ooh" for any soaring feat after which the athlete remains in an upright position, "oops" for ungainly plops onto ice or snow and "ouch" for the spectacular disasters. Couch-cozy spectators are likely to remain otherwise speechless at the subtleties of winter sports. They will not be helped by the glossolalia that accompanies the coverage of the Games, including such fascinating but baffling terms as Axels and Lutzes, telemark and super-Gs. Enlightened appreciation will also be hindered by Zen-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Beyond the O Words | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...couch potatoes, a monster mash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: A Viewer's Guide | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...insist on reading this review, bent perhaps like some insane TF exam grader on extracting and assessing information from a piece of writing that, by rights, should not exist, I will go on. I will demonstrate, point by point, exactly why The Couch Trip blows...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: What A Long, Bad Trip It Is | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...saying that I have taken the wrong viewpoint: the question to ask is, what is the best thing about this movie? Well, there are some features of this film that are less lame than the generally acrid level of badness that pervades the filmic vomit that is The Couch Trip. For example, Walter Matthau's hair is, at one point in the film, realistically disheveled: congrats to the hairdresser. Also, there is a brief scene in which the camera lingers on a TV screen featuring Chevy Chase in a hilarious cameo, selling condoms in a commercial...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: What A Long, Bad Trip It Is | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

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