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Word: misters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies gets prettier and prettier, Celie's life gets worse and worse. Her new husband beats her and separates her from her best friend and sister, Nettie (Akosua Busia). "Mister" (Danny Glover), as she affectionately refers to her betrothed, proves to be a real downer: he steals Celie's mail, sleeps around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...THREE VERSES of the Grinch song during these crucial scenes were eliminated. Since you were not able to enjoy these famous lines last Saturday night, a few are reprinted here: "You're a foul one Mister Grinch... You have termites in your smile... You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile." Would have been better in the show...

Author: By Henry E. Smith, | Title: How X-Mas Stole the Grinch | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

...Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor (Verna Bloom) to plaster-cast his entire quaking self. Oh, well, if you can't be an artist, might as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...most popular one goes: "hip za zoo za chik-a room ba zoo F. Skiddy Von Stade mister Fu (clap) Man (clap) Chu (clap, clap) teddy roo teddy ra teddy ruddy duddy fuddy duddy sis boom ba Harvard Harvard...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Aqua Antics | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

...Mister, please, Excuse me sir. You must pay me more." The rug salesman is near pleading on his knees, or at least he pretends he will go that far. "I have babies at home. You must pay me more...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Training Tomorrow's Third World Leaders | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

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