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Word: hags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Streep's unusual looks give her, at 32, the flexibility to play anything from a hag to a beauty, and she is aware of this. "I know I'm good-looking enough to play any of the women I usually play?individuals in the world. But for this character with her intense beauty, it wasn't enough." She laughs at herself. "I once went up for King of the Gypsies, a Dino De Laurentiis film. His son, who has since died [in July] in a plane crash, remarked to his father in Italian, 'But she's not beautiful.' It didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Meryl Magic | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...furnace in the basement is stoked by a hideous hag, an anti-bella donna, who bundles the hapless Snaporaz onto her motorcycle and roars off with him, ostensibly to the train station. Instead, she attempts to rape him in a greenhouse, chickens squawking between them and stuffed cars reposing on a nearby table. Rescued in the nick of time by the rapist's mother, Snaporaz entrusts himself to his attacker's daughter...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

...they are particularly open-minded, but only if this "minority" student approaches them within their context. So very few straight students at this University feel comfortable joining me at a dinner table of known male gay students. A woman who does so is immediately branded as a "fag hag," just as a White student who sits and associates with Black students is considered a "nigger lover." (Of course, we don't use that term any more--"We know better"--but the thought still persists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discrimination | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...herself: "A likable old hag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Malicious Wit | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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