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Word: janet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homicidal maniacs in Halloween and Prom Night, deposited by leprous spooks into The Fog bank, and now manhandled by a psycho transsexual on a Terror Train, Curtis is the new virgin queen of shivers. No-nonsense intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scream Queen | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...crack at the Tigers, who knocked them off in a monsoon, 4-1, last Saturday in New Jersey. The tournament finals are this afternoon. THE NOTEBOOK: The band Foghat, which appeared at the New Haven Coliseum last night, checked into the hotel right before the team... Wendy Sonnabend and Janet Judge sustained minor injuries but should be fine for today's games... Deja-Vu Department: Harvard gained the fifth seed in the Eastern Regional tournament and will meet Brown, seeded fourth, in Providence on Wednesday. The teams also met three times last year, once in the regular season, once...

Author: By Mike Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women Booters Stomp on Big Red, 5-0 | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...years of marriage. He lived first with his mother, then moved in with his father at age 15. He attended a string of schools, started high school late and dabbled briefly in drugs. But friends said that in the past few years he seemed to be on track. Said Janet McLaughlin, 22, another housemate of Meeker's: "Richard wasn't emotionally troubled. He was in love. His job was good." Insisted Grant Tinker: "The movie has absolutely nothing to do with this. There are no parallels." Police were not so certain. They planned several weeks of investigation before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Game with Death | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

Frank Piegaro, sporting pipe, dark-rimmed glasses and an aura of klutziness, and the demurely attractive Marcia Mitzman, are well cast as the traditional innocent victims--the Denton, Ohio couplet of Brad "Asshole" Majors and Janet Weiss (as in "Vice...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Transsexual Entrancement | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

...play by Trixie (Meghan Duffy) the usherette as she comes on to the back row while offering her buttered popcorn--recalls "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (Michael Rennie was ill"), "Day of the Triffids" (as in, "And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills") and others, encapsulating this '70's retelling of Dr. Frankenstein...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Transsexual Entrancement | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

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