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Word: hoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Naipaul gives three cheers for the legacy of Western civilization, but not a hoot for the romanticizers of the Third World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 2 JULY 10, 1989 | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Give a hoot, Harry. "Yes," he yelled...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crowds, Crew, Cookouts and Victory | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr gaze out from Crossroads (1942), "where women," promises the caption, "wait to seal your fate!" Even without popcorn, Reel Art is a real hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Holiday Hamper Of Glowing Gift Titles | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Pensive Winos seems an appropriate name, considering how they hoot and holler in the background of some cuts like the world's oldest frat band. Though they sound deceptively loose, they were tight enough to record many of Talk's songs in a single take. The result is the spontaneous, raw sound that marks the Stones' best work, a sound one has come not to expect from their recent albums or solo projects...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Keith Richards Breaks the Silence | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

They also provide individual spotlights. Page is uproarious as he explains to an unseen partner that he cannot love her because Your Feet's Too Big, and he and De Shields are a hoot expressing scorn and envy for a rival whom they see as Fat and Greasy. De Shields belts 'T Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do in an up tempo that may be delightfully surprising to fans of Billie Holiday's torchy rendition, and revels in marijuana in The Viper's Drag. Woodard, too little used, nonetheless glows in Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Rowdy Romp into the Past AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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