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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York (40 minutes late, natch) only to find my friend sitting on his suitcases on the nearby line for the Boston bus, playing his guitar and talking quietly to three new-found friends. Some people are just better travelers than others, I guess, and my friend is definitely in the former category. We reached Boston by early evening, went out to dinner, had a good conversation, and prepared for next day's classes...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: So Where Did You Go Over Vacation? | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...filled with little imitations of the master, just isn't very funny, except in a few spots. Once again, the film is a Brooks extravaganza--he wrote, produced, directed, starred and out-did himself this by writing the words and music to the title song. You'll never guess who sings...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...surprising thing is that Finch has managed to keep up his popularity, this being accomplished by numerous "Cliff Finch Appreciation Day" rallies, which usually include the serving of barbecued chicken. One can only guess at where the money for all of this comes, considering Finch's supporters are the poor working people...

Author: By Guy T. Gillespie, | Title: Barbecues and Rhetoric | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...attorney wife once or twice a year. He keeps cosmetics at home and in his office to cover up the bruises and face bites. An Army veteran and multiple amputee living in Georgia says his wife routinely socks and kicks him "just for being so useless, I guess." A former Virginia television personality endured a 26-year marriage to a woman who regularly punched him in the groin and face while he was driving. Once she bashed his head open with two cans of Campbell's pepperpot soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Battered Husbands | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...answers are not terribly hard to guess. Casey's Shadow rarely disobeys the time-honored rules of its kid-and-colt genre. Yet the movie proves that those strictures, when applied with flourish, can still carry an audience across the finish line. While Casey's Shadow is aimed squarely at eleven-year-olds, it is likely to captivate any grownup whose idea of heaven is to steal a Saturday afternoon and secretly reread Black Beauty or Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horse Sense | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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