Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaching the dispiriting conclusion that this "was the prime of my life, and it wasn't so great." Then he went to a California spa and "experienced a natural high for the first time in my life." So, with his wife Enid, he bought an old dude ranch, spent $6.8 million converting it, and now says, "It's a whole new life...
...summer, the Home Ranch, north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., is a modestly successful dude ranch, luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with live horseflesh and barbecued beef. When the snows come, the ranch, like scores of summer inns and resorts from the California Sierra to Massachusetts, becomes a cross-country skiing resort. The demand for cross-country accommodations-and the carefully prepared trails through snowy woods, mountains and meadows they offer-has risen dramatically...
After the American and European television crews leave, life at Camp Cuba-Nicaragua returns to its normal desolation and languor. The 68-acre site, a leased former sunflower farm, resembles a vacated M*A*S*H stage set or a jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban...
Into this quiet disarray bursts Randall (Jake Lamar), a schizophrenic, self-proclaimed "young gentleman of color" (this is set in 1961); an impossibly jive, cool dude who proceeds to play a tense game of thrust and parry with Mr. Glas, the store-owner, (David Reiffel). As the two are gradually getting a feel for one another, in bursts a young Jewish girl (everyone seems to burst into Slow Dance) on her way to have an abortion and about to faint...
...procession of dudes pauses to talk to Baby Love. Most have done hard time. Some push dope, many are boozers. All have bitter wisdom. Crocodile comes by waving a bottle of vodka, his eyes gleaming yellow. He tells Baby Love, "Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes...