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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, despite all her obvious flaws, he has to admit that Muriel has a certain flair. In one of her spirited moments, she belts out a reckless rendition of "War Is Hell On the Homefront, Too." Muriel, he realizes, is a fighter. Her pathetic ignorance wages war on the conventional proprieties that have long ossified the rest of the Learys. Macon's decision to give up middle-class respectability for its underside of secondhand thrift shops and carry-out pizza dinners turns out, ironically, to be less of an escape than an adventure in responsibility. He discovers himself feeling...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

...happened recently, we look at the newspapers that cover the floor. If I see a book for a course that I'm taking Iying on the common room floor, I just take it and go to class. If my roommates weren't this way too I'd be in hell...

Author: By Joshua L. Dunaief, | Title: 'Creative Disorder:' Assigning Freshman Roommates | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

...Cocoon: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:10; Gods Must Be Crazy: 10:30, 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. Pi Alley: 237 Wash. near Govt's Ctr., Boston, 227-6676. Burial Ground: 1:15, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45, 10; Hell Hole: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 9:50. Paris: 841 Boylston, Boston, 267-8181. Pee Wee's Big Adventure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: September 26--October 2 | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...sealed on the telephone. Greg Larson, who is based in Jacksonville, learned that the Utica Blue Sox team , in the Class A New York- Penn League, was for sale for $70,000. The seller required a swift decision. Larson called his colleague, Bob Fowler, in Orlando. Fowler said, "Hell yes, we'll buy it." Today Fowler recollects, "In ten minutes, overcome by the adventure, we had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Utica: the Dogpatch of Baseball | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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