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Word: goode (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merry Christmas from Sesame Street. You might feel stupid buying it. Go ahead, feel stupid. It's good for you. The girl at the Coop smiles at you. Ha-ha, you chuckle in defense, blushing. Ha-ha is right because this album is hysterical. It's also charming, endearing and heartwarming--really...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...best part is the soaps. The soap opera Christmas season begins as soon as the World Series ends, and it proceeds in a hysterical fashion for three more months, milking the advertisers' good cheer for every last dime. Turn on a soap in the last quarter of the year. Even odds says some kid--whose father is in jail because they say he killed his wife's boyfriend who is not really her boyfriend because she is actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...from sports altogether. No matter how good--or awful--it sounds now, watching 18 hours a day of football is not going to do much for you. Not that you won't be tempted. Some of the best college match-ups of the decade can be seen in the bowls, especially Southern California vs. Thank-God-No-More-Woody-Hayes Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, and number one Bear-Bryant-Is-Still-Around Alabama against-some as yet unnamed victim in the Sugar Bowl. Oklahoma and Florida State should cook in the Orange Bowl. All three games...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Lest you think public television is immune to the Christmas Spirit, they give it to you just as determinedly, except with the pinky raised delicately away from the tea cup. "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Giancarlo Menotti's Christmas opera about a crippled shepherd boy who makes good, is on PBS, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. The "Joy of Bach," (self-explanatory) is the next night at 8 p.m., and then, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street," Monday the 24th at 8 p.m. The schedule promises a "special interview" with Henry A. Kissinger on "The Dick Cavett Show" Saturday the 22nd...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Thus the Crimson's inability to get off more than a handful of good shots. Despite some aggressive skating from freshmen wingers Alex Lightfoot and Vicki Palmer and an impressive performance from junior defenseman Julie Starr, Harvard could not hit the mark...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Icewomen Drop Third-Act Shootout to Elis, 5-3 | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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