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Word: mule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMEMBER Francis the Talking Mule Joins the Army? Remember Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates? Or that lamebrained Martin and Lewis movie with the unforgettable musical number--"The navy gets the gravy/But the army gets the beans/Beans, beans, beans..."? These films, and a hundred like them, showed us that being trained to kill people in a brutally authoritarian institution could be fun, in fact, downright hilarious. Just when it seemed that Vietnam had bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Mrs. Grunt | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...many poorly written characters she's portrayed. But Judy Benjamin, who gives painfully new meaning to the word shallow, renders Hawn helpless. One can only hope that Private Benjamin won't start a new wave of contemporary service comedies. The world's not yet ready for Francis the Talking Mule Goes to Afghanistan...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Mrs. Grunt | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...hardy farmer who forged the American frontier in the 19th century had 40 acres of land, a mule and a couple of good milk cows. But that was in the days before rent-a-cow. Instead of spending up to $2,000 to buy a dairy cow, some 300 U.S. farmers have turned to the Quality Holstein Leasing company of Tennessee Colony, Texas, the Hertz for cattle, where they can rent a cow for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rent-a-Cow | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...meter diving. 1st, Schramm, 471.55 points; 4th, Mule...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Capture Advantage In Opening Day of Easterns | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...freshman Jeff Mule (fourth) combined for 27 points in the event, while Princeton scored zero...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Capture Advantage In Opening Day of Easterns | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

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