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Word: horsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the vignettes try to show how TV aims for the lowest common denominator, making its programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

"Starring Lots of Actors," the opening credits of this Son of Kentucky Fried Movie announce. Also five directors (including Joe Dante and John Landis) and two TV-bred writers (Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland) itching to bring skitcom to the big screen. Some episodes offer social satire, such as one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kentucky Fried Sequel | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

One way the Kropotkinskaya Cafe is already competing is by serving the rarest thing in the Moscow restaurant world: courtesy. Customers are greeted by a courtly doorman who apologizes for the delay. The waiters startle women by holding chairs for them. In the evenings two Moldavian musicians serenade diners with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalism On Kropotkinskaya Street | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Bloodlines ran everywhere in the race. Owner Dorothy Scharbauer and her husband Clarence have for the most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Days Of Wine and Bloody Noses | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

The dinner specials are the best introduction to Portuguese dining. Most seafood dishes consist of salty slabs of off-white flesh with tangy blobs of lemon sliding across the top and flanks of the deceased H2O breather. But the Casa's seafood is served up as a steamy, eye-tingling...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: More Than Burritos | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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