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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then I moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beautiful Dreamer in a Minefield Desperately Seeking Susan | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Derby Daze | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...first place, but there will be a lot more to make you come back. As the state tourism board jingle goes, "Oh, Kentucky--you'll come to love it"--and there's no better time to come than on that sunny May morning when 80 hooves scatter mud across Churchill Downs.A year-round influx of heavy-duty horse-fanatic millionaires has created a unique character in central Kentucky. Mercedes sedans park next to Chevy trucks; Red Man-chewing Joe Bob the horse trainer rubs elbows with Arabian princes...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Derby Daze | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Some of the riders stood on their horses, while some could not stand at all. Some did flips off their mounts and into the mud, and nothing broke, a testament to the malleability of young bones. A middle-aged Texan named Dennis Jerkins broke his hand, however. The hand was already in a cast. "The way I broke it the first time," said Jerkins, "was my executive privilege to bang it against my desk. I'm a grain and sod-grass hauler. The way I broke it the second time was I was trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...than like the Mayor of New York City. Replete with Soloflex and cocoa-butter tan, Tyler skips from one social engagement to the next with nary a thought for such inessentials as city business and mayoral responsibilities. Certainly none could object to Jimmy dragging his name though the mud but considering his totally asinine personality, such actions seem unwarranted and excessive...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Running 'Em Out Of Business | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

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