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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's largest athletic facility, has 128,000 square feet of floor space, two pools, a large gymnasium, nautilus and general work-out equipment, wrestling and fencing rooms, and many athletic offices...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: IAB Waits And Waits | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...huge top-floor gym has had its often leaky roof rebuilt and been painted white in an effort to make the room brighter...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: IAB Waits And Waits | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...hotel employee whose identification tag said he was Kresimir Skoko got on an elevator, dragging an enormous vacuum cleaner. At the next floor, a moist young woman fresh out of Lake Michigan got on with two youthful sports who struggled to settle their bicycles around Skoko's machine. The athletes had the look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Lookin' Good in the '80s | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...elevator door opened at the sixth floor and the two with bikes wrestled to get them over the vacuum cleaner and into the corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Lookin' Good in the '80s | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...however, the release of a superb 1984 performance documentary movie, Stop Making Sense, and a sound-track album that marked the band's biggest breakthrough so far. Talk about psycho killers. Byrne showed up in his humongous, gleaming, wide-shouldered white suit, did a fancy two-step with a floor lamp, and the band played all its best-known tunes. Byrne may have looked, at first, like Anthony Perkins getting ready to swab the bathroom floor at the Bates Motel, but his brilliant performance made manifest all the deadpan comedy and everyday eeriness of the music. At last, everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heads Are Rolling | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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