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Word: lecherouseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Q. In Bloom County, you portray reporters as lecherous, scurrilous, lying fiends. Do you really think they are that bad?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with BERKE BREATHED: A Hooligan Who Wields a Pen | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Despite the interests they share, each occupies a unique place within the group. Elby is something of a clown, whose refusal to feel embarrassment, no matter what the situation, is a constant source of both amusement and consternation to his roommates. Stone is the most sedate, and observers describe him...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: They Even Know Each Other's Punchlines | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

Must be the Maitlands -- Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) -- the ghosts of the house's previous owners, who died a while back and now reside in the attic. This nice postmortem couple is no happier than Lydia (Winona Ryder) to be trapped here with trendy Charles (Jeffrey Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

The play's other actors try for less serious performances. Mike Gaw and Robert P. Chapski wryly exaggerate their cameos as Portia's unsuccessful suitors. Jeff Hobson is a nicely lecherous Lancelot Gobbo. Phil Fry squeezes the maximum comedic possibilities from his roles as servant Stephano and the blind Old...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Venetian Binds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

The novel's hero, of a sort, turns out to be Benton Lynch, nephew of the bald Jeeter, son of the fat Jeeter, and a lad who "could not ever rise much above cipherdom." The author, of course, elaborates: "He was not blatantly stupid or outright idiotic. There was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Digressions Off for the Sweet Hereafter | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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