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Word: dracula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more fashion conscious, N-M offers a men's three-quarter length "Transylvania look" evening cape made of karacul lamb and black-dyed rabbit. With the requisite red satin lining, the Dracula outfit sells...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

While Weir may not count himself a Dracula, his remarks demonstrate how much influence the private feelings of a powerful few can have over a city's lifeblood. Revealing how the city is run by "an unelected corporate shadow government" is a matter of duty for Kucinich. His targets react by branding him "Dennis the Menace," an enemy of the people. With the fervor of an Ibsen protagonist, he says, "We're going to keep exposing these liars, these crooks, who masquerade as good, upstanding citizens of the community but are morally rotten." Unlike most, this advocate of economic democracy...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Bare Knuckles in Cleveland | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Batty over Dracula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...made a mistake in not having a woman review the movie Dracula [July 23]. Mr. Schickel either did not grasp or simply ignored the film's best asset, Frank Langella's sex appeal. Any woman who sees the film will go "batty" over its leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...DRACULA'S LONELINESS acquires real dimension, because after he has obliged us by providing a series of lurid thrills, we pull out on him too. And he goes knowing that he'll be back, that you can't keep a good man down, that you can't put a stake through your own heart of darkness. So we return to our isolated hells, knowing that he has the answer to our terminal loneliness, our inability to know--really know--other human beings: ingest them...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

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