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Word: dreamin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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California Dreamin': The Harvard men's water polo team will be catching some "rays" in California this weekend, when it plays in the Berkeley International in Berkeley, Calif...

Author: By Jon Unger, | Title: Ultimate Club Looks to Regionals | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

...odds of winning the spiffy Mustang convertible in the Alpha Beta supermarket chain's California Dreamin' sweepstakes, the entry form said, were about 1 in 3.7 million. But for Navy Mechanic James Lee of San Diego, it was a cinch. In fact, a year after claiming the Mustang, Lee was lucky enough to win a $28,500 Chevy Corvette in a Taco Bell sweepstakes. Last week a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lee, Marketing Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTESTS: Too Lucky To Be True | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Even without beads or bell-bottoms, she looks perfect for the part. But Chynna Phillips, 19, has more than good genes going for her when she plays her mother Michelle, 42, in the upcoming California Dreamin'. Based on the singer's 1986 book, the film is a flashback to her psychedelic heyday in the '60s as a member of the Mamas and the Papas. Chynna was exposed to the groovy life when her mom divorced co-Papa John Phillips and began sharing a pad with turn-ons like Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. Chynna, who sings too, began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1987 | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard men's tennis doubles past of junior Larry Scott and freshman Arkie Engle, yesterday was pure California dreamin...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Scott, Engle Star at NCAAs | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

Tony then heads West (to the strains of the Mamas and Papas' "California Dreamin," of course) and the movie enters the land of Oz. Before, the music served mainly as an audio calendar, or a mood piece; suddenly, we are supposedly at the very heart of the pop-making scene. A druggie band living in a Haight-Ashbury boarding house picks up Tony and he becomes some sort of mythical rock and roll guru. He composes (Dylan's folk) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" on a bus, the band plays (Jefferson Airplane's rock) Somebody to Love...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

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