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Word: couchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson Couch Bob Scalier pointed out in his post-mortem: "They were bating us to the ball in the critical situations all game long. We didn't play aggressively in those spots; we were standing and watching and waiting, while they played an excellent defensive game...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Boaters Falter, 2-1; Big Green Wins in OT | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...lacy curtains, Hawkins' sculpted profile--before coming to rest on a sleeping, naked Jules. After a few moments of admiring contemplation, it pans back to reveal a delightful surprise: The boy has spent the night not, as the viewer assumes, between his siren's sheets but chastely on her couch...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Scenes of Paris | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

...Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful music and the caress of a soft-focus lens; the '50s are jangly cowboy songs and cruel chiaroscuro. Propelled by her screenwriter husband (who fades out of his own picture), her producer (who finds younger actresses for his casting couch), her neurologist (who ladles out morphine) and a curious reporter (who cannot escape the lure of decadence), Veronika travels down Sunset Boulevard to a dead end. Fassbinder's black-and-white palette turns neon into a soft, blinking Cyclops eye, slices light into flickers with an overhead fan, dapples windows with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...dormitory under University supervision may be dismissed from the building and barred from residence in any other dormitory...Radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb others...No students shall play boisterous games [e.g. dodge ball with the living room couch] in the Yard, in corridors, etc." Dragged in front of the College's disciplinary Administrative Board, you will be asked to explain everything, from the guy in the lampshade to the beer consumed by underage revelers. In a mysterious quirk in the system, your senior adviser will serve as both prosecutor...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...faced. He shakes hands with all the soldiers sitting around the room. He wears a camouflage suit, a pair of sneakers and a cap that looks like a sun hat with the brim turned up, his P.L.O. badge pinned to the front of it. He plunks down on a couch with a machine gun resting in his lap. Then he gives his visitor the business for publishing the name of his girlfriend in last winter's story. His visitor tells him to watch his manners or the girl's address will be published this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Seven Days in a Small War | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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