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Word: glittering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is Bob ("Tell Erik Estrada I'll meet him out on the blacktop") Hope, 79, here to tell you about my new special next month on NBC: Bob Hope's Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season-G-Rated with Glamour, Glitter and Gags. And how about NBC these days? The peacock has been taking such a beating in the ratings recently that I've seen better-looking birds served by Frank Perdue. This is my 33rd year on NBC, and for my new special I've got all the hot stars, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1982 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: No Pepsi, Please | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...relief to know that the art of film making still exists in the creative mind of Steven Spielberg. He has raised himself above the industry's inflated egos and bloated budgets to show that there's some glitter left in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1982 | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...there were shadows on the ceremonial glitter of the tour. Germans who took to the streets to protest against nuclear weapons seemed equally anxious to lambaste the U.S. and ridicule Reagan. Supertight security precautions both annoyed Reagan's European hosts and made the President seem a remote figure. European crowds, who had attended big rallies and waved small American flags for previous touring Presidents, this time had to settle for watching pageantry-filled spectacles on TV or at best catching a brief glimpse of a whizzing motorcade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Are Not Alone | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...this life of dazzle and glitter ends, typically, with Spielberg, wearing a body shirt, hopping into bed at 8:15 with a carton of take-out tacos, to read scripts and watch TV. He falls asleep watching Nightline. Says he: "TV is video Valium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Staying Five Moves Ahead | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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