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Word: lipsticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wearing clothes which quite frankly (at least when he was a candidate) I was unaware were in his wardrobe. And the maddening thing is that despite the fact that he is now decked out again figuratively speaking, in a big floppy hat, a skirt, high heels, wearing bright red lipstick and carrying a purse, the President and his men tell us-with straight faces-that there has been no change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Get Your Balance Elsewhere | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...short beak-nosed woman in front of me on the bus shoved me into two teenagers with painted-on pants and red lipstick which didn't quite hide their fangs. They got all pissed off at me for bumping into them and flicked cigarette ash in my direction. As if it weren't bad-enough having to go home and see my parents for the holidays--they always tell me I'm 30 years old now, live less than 20 miles away, and should know enough to visit them more often--like once a week. I don't even...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: He Looked a Little Like Allen Ginsberg | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...BOILED HER BABY AND ATE IT," read the full-page headline on the front of a recent Boston tabloid. Everyone who picked it up had the same reaction: they saw the lipstick-red banner head at the top, they read the teasers running down the left-hand column ("Toilet paper beauty linked to Teddy's past? page 3"), and they said this is it--the Boston Herald-American has sunk to an all-time...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Don't Knock The Rag | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Clever but virulent wordplay abounded. "I don't wanna be your lover--I just wanna be your victim," Elvis sputtered in his souped-up homage to whacking-off that he not-so-subtly dubbed "The Beat." And he bragged in "Lipstick Vogue," "Sometimes I almost feel...just like a human bein...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

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