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Word: hops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where else would a baby boomer's memoir play begin but at a high school sock hop? The smartest girl in class sits alone, of course, equally terrified that no one will ask her to dance or that someone may. Where would the action predictably jump to next but a combined college mixer and "Clean for Gene" McCarthy rally? What way stations are then more obligatory than a protest, a consciousness-rais ing session, a TV talk show and a mistrustfully viewed "ladies' lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Way Stations | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...newspaper, and read an interview with Taylor Hackford, director of that fascinating new film Everybody's All-American. At lunch, walk past the newsstand. Vanity Fair has a cover story on Jessica Lange, star of the new film Everybody's All-American. Get home that evening, channel-hop from the local news to Entertainment Tonight to USA Today. They're all showing behind- the-scenes footage of that warm, witty, winning and winsome new film Everybody's All-American. The picture hasn't yet opened at a theater near you, but you feel as if you know all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Does This Film Seem Familiar? | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Forget the downtown department store and the suburban shopping mall. Leave the catalogs on the coffee table and turn off the video-shopping channel. Hop into the car with a full bandolier of credit cards and head for the outback. Tucked away in Monterey, Calif.; Boaz, Ala.; Rockford, Mich.; Freeport, Me.; and a dozen odd small towns in between, scores of manufacturers' outlet stores are doing a land-office business by offering 25% to 70% savings. Along with the bargains, urban consumers enjoy a day in the country and engage in a venerable American dream -- the inalienable right to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flemington, New Jersey A Town That Bargains | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...offensive success that Harvard has been enjoying this season has been spread around the team. Johnston is the latest Crimson player to hop on the scoring bandwagon...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: W. Booters Grease Friars, 1-0 | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

With their first debate just five days away, Dukakis campaigned in Houston and Bowling Green, Ky., while Bush made a brief campaign hop to Bloomfield, N.J., to visit the Annin Flag Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Unveils Health Insurance Plan | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

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