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Word: harems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crowned the "Queen of the Creepies" for her roles in such harem-scarems as Halloween and Prom Night, Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, 22, graduates to real life in her next part but still plays a victim. In the NBC-TV movie The Dorothy Straiten Story, Curtis will play the Playmate of the Year turned actress who was murdered last August by her husband. The daughter of Actor Tony Curtis, 56, and Actress Janet Leigh, 54, Jamie will be dressed for family viewing in the TV movie, but will show off those good family lines in a racier European version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...meetings drag on, property values come up again and again. A former board of education chairman rises to lament that without "quality schools" only a rich Arab with a harem would want to buy his oversized colonial; a marketing vice president for Smith Corona asserts that home values are directly tied to school quality, and urges the town not to "take a meat ax to the best asset the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Cutting to the Bone | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

Frederick kept quantities of freshly-cut flowers in his bright and airy flat, which he decorated with nineteenth century mahogany and oriental rugs over parquet. A heavily rouged black man in a gold harem outfit, who had done his hair in one long, thin braid down his back, served tea to this lively, well-mannered bunch. "That's Oscar," whispered Alexis. "He helps Frederick out around the house...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Underground at The Whiskey | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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