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Word: daffyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Always chafing against cliches too narrow to contain them, Hispanics may find their greatest luxury in not being hemmed in by any preconceptions at all. Consider the Los Angeles artist known as Gronk. He has impeccable Chicano credentials: born in 1954 in mostly Chicano East Los Angeles, he was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surging New Spirit | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

It used to be that Saturday matinees offered dessert before dinner, a nifty Hollywood cartoon or three before the feature film. Daffy Duck would fume, but gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Roger Rabbit careers like a Toontown trolley and boasts a technical dexterity that Walt Disney could only have daydreamed of. At first you may snap to suspicious attention when, say, a cartoon stork pedals a real bicycle, or Jessica diddles a human's necktie. But the film encourages you to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

What follows is predictable but daffy and delightful nonetheless. Who knows more about the kind of toys a twelve-year-old would like than a twelve-year- old? None of the grownups at the toy company, anyway. "What's a marketing report?" asks Josh, who has never heard of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Lost and Found BIG | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

"We made a star out of Arthur Jackson." said Crimson sophomore Sean Daffy.

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Brown Upsets Men Cagers, 103-101 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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