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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open on his lap...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

...being boyishly naive, Carradine is just pompous and prim. Certainly he is no match for Vitti, who has rarely seemed as radiant and emotionally full-blooded as she is here. With smoky eyes and a voice to match, she reduces her co-star to the stature of a lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cannes Game | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps. The rules of stock car racing are vaguely drawn to give the competitors a lot of crowd-pleasing leeway, especially on the last lap when, as King Petty says, "you're getting down to pay dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beware These Sunday Drivers | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Norma Rae. When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynold's lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hockey, but it plays. Widowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Because You're Paranoid... | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Norma Rae: When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynolds lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hokey, but it plays. Widowed by a beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorilla From Another Time | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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