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Word: miltown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Dreaming of the Eisenhower Years | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...Still later, they learn to make love. For the next 20 minutes, all they do is couple, on the beach, in the mango grove, behind the bamboo hut, and everywhere. They are almost adults now. The movie end when they intentionally overdose on red berries, the Fijian equivalent of Miltown. Totally grown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

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