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Word: kidded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There, up from a Washington suburb sporting an ice cream suit fit for Cab Calloway and a wife who made it known she had met Liz Taylor, was the kid who had been the class's best dancer. There, gowned in lavender and telling of an ended marriage while speaking of her new companion as "my fiance, my roommate, whatever," was the girl who had been head majorette. There, with the conspicuous tan and the bleached hair, baring a leg in a comic chorus-line kick-who could that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...there, jostling hip to hip with dozens of others under a dripping canvas before the bonfire finally got lit. "It's marvelous," said he, and went on to muse on time's familiar way of shrinking one's childhood world: "When I was a kid, that Allegheny Bridge was the Golden Gate. Today I realized I could clear it with a 9-iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

What kind of bullshit was this, Bobby thought, the kid doesn't know what's real and what...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...body of a southern California corporate hot shot, Leo Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...

Author: By Ray Bertolino, | Title: Warren, The Megalomaniac | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...Fein. WABC's Roger Grimsby may reach $300,000 when his new contract is signed this year, and Station Manager Nelson of WBBM predicts that salaries of top anchors will hit $500,000 within the next five years. Says one KNBC newsman: "Remember when you were a kid and the teacher told you not to read with your lips? Well, you shouldn't have listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Those Affluent Anchors | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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