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Word: motel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Illinois at a glossy truck stop that offers all mechanical services, motel rooms, showers, Laundromat, game room, TV lounge, truckers' bulletin board and a stack of newspapers published by the Association of Christian Truckers. Piped-in music fills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...same prize--an invitation to read to the bottom of this story --if you also guessed Police Academy, Hot Moves, Hardbodies, Joysticks, Weekend Pass, Private Lessons, Zapped!, My Tutor, Beach Girls, Summer Camp, Goin' All the Way, Hot Dog . . . The Movie, Bachelor Party, Party Animal, Paradise Motel, Private School, Mugsy's Girls, Hollywood Hot Tubs, The Last American Virgin, Mischief, The Wild Life, Lunch Wagon, Night Patrol, Porky's and Porky's II: The Next Day. If you missed any of those, don't worry. Porky's Revenge! came out only last month, grossing a huge $6.2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Animal House BEGAT . . . | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...with indigestion. "Ninety percent of truck-stop food isn't worth speaking about," shudders seven-year Veteran Driver Tom Burghardt of Hicksville, N.Y. He estimates he will save $200 a month on motel and food bills with his new $22,500 Double Eagle Windjammer. Dave Kahlig and his wife Mitch of Fort Recovery, Ohio, have yet to install a microwave in their 66- in., $11,000 Double Eagle sleeper. But they have a refrigerator and cook foil-wrapped meats on the truck's engine between the red-hot turbo pipes. "It takes about 10 to 15 miles to cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...returned home, changed his clothes, packed a bag. He rented a blue American Motors Eagle and headed for Vermont. In a motel in Bennington, he disassembled the .38 and later dumped it, along with his blue windbreaker, into a snowy woods. A week later he called his neighbor Myra Friedman. Goetz sought her help and her ear; he poured out his story in an anxious, confused monologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubled and Troubling Life | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...ventured back to the Holiday Inn, my Bates Motel, where a visit by a member of the Crimson team furthered my anxieties about the town--several players had been grabbed by little old women in the nearby Macdonald's and sternly informed that they had attended the symphony last night...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: My Dream Weekend In Duluth | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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