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Word: lobsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this one was much more substantial. Not just another piece of compressed, prefabricated shlock--this song was there and really meant something. It was a political statement that asked people to stand up and vote with their feet. You caught the infectiousness of the 52's "Rock Lobster" and moved in ways you never dreamed of You did the Shy Tuna, the Camel Walk, the Shu-ga-loo and many more inane dances...

Author: By Michael J. Abrameichz, | Title: Bombs Away | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...week Arden works as a real estate agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses around he drives to work lacks exercise and does...

Author: By M. CHARLES Mason, | Title: No More Free Lunches | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

...Presidents' disparate history lessons with friendly toasts and good cheer. Mitterrand and his wife Danielle were hosts at a Sunday lunch aboard the moored French frigate De Grasse (named for Admiral François de Grasse, whose naval blockade sealed the English defeat at Yorktown). There, after lobster and lamb, Mitterrand told Reagan that he relished "the humor of your conversation" and toasted "the generous smile of Mrs. Reagan." A few hours later the Presidents, their wives and 92 others arrived, amid fife-and-drum fanfare, for a black-tie state dinner at the 260-year-old Royal Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Last Bicentennial Bash | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

There is nothing in this world like a lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Sand Fantasies | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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