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Word: dad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican convention, one vice president's daughter casually described the page corps: "We don't do anything at all. I just sit around reading magazines all day and get paid six dollars an hour." The comment ran in the paper the next day, and even her heavyweight dad couldn't get her re-hired for the Democratic convention in New York...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: A Summer With Walter and Dan | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...tuxedo is beautiful," someone whispers. "And his hairstyle..." Members of the cast hand him a blond wig and a pink negligee, which he poses with awkwardly for a minute, looking perplexed. Finally he speaks: "My dad was very proud. He said, Harvard, that's the most illustrious, the most prestigious school in the country." Someone shouts, "It's all bullshit...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...more to do with art than with Brooke Shields. But for Albee, the purity of this book was just too tempting; he apparently couldn't wait to get his hands on Nabokov's little girl, turning her from an attractive but commonplace adolescent into a loud-mouthed hellion, screeching "Dad!" at her molester step-father and punctuating her speeches with an occasional "fuck...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: A Statutory Drama | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...received a special kind of inspiration prior to leaving for the match against Princeton last week. Compliments of number seven Chris Gabriell, a belly dancer--with the words "Beat Princeton" stenciled on her stomach--visited the squad. Only coach Dave Fish missed the estravaganza. He was being a good dad, and had stayed home for his son's fifth birthday party. Says Gabrieli about the visitor: "She looked midly middle eastern, but her strong Boston accent gave her away." ...Squash players JOHN DINEEN and GEORDIE LEMMON missed the Porcellian Club initiation dinner because of the Princeton match, so they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sheehy Misses by Inches | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...first looks fairly familiar, a blacktop and stucco fantasia of gas stations and fast-fooderies sprawling out along a meandering, not-too-clean creek. But the mountains that rim the valley are tipped with snow and trimmed with dark firs that wipe the skyline like distant eyelashes. "Gee, Dad," the boy says, nose pressed to the window, "could we really move out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oregon: An Adman's Call of the Wild | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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