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Word: munchkins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most eccentric performance is turned in by Anne Ramsey as Umstetter's mother. She's a parody of the faithful, loving Hollywood mother and she looks like the result of a genetic experiment in which Mama Leone's genes were spliced with a munchkin...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stars and Bars | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

Ralph: Far from it, light of my life. She's my favorite sex munchkin. Who else would tackle the tough question of whether a devout Catholic like Bruce from Dubuque shows disrespect for his church by doing it dressed as a nun? These are the very issues they duck all the time on Face the Nation and Meet the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Munchkin of the Bedroom | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...Secretary of the Treasury, the administration has not yet recovered from the crippling embarassment of Barbara Honegger's resignation from her post as Special Adviser on Women's Issues. The attitude of the White House towards Honegger was adequately summed up in Larry Speakes' reference to her as a "Munchkin" whose only function was to give children Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn--a function which Speakes was apparently not aware that Second Lady Barbara Bush has fulfilled in recent years...

Author: By David M. Roscnical, | Title: Mouthing the Words | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...Some Munchkin. Some Easter Bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rabbit Punches | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Honegger came out swinging at a press conference called by her new-found allies in the women's movement. "This is the Munchkin with the Wizard of Oz," she said, holding up a dignified picture of herself at the White House with the President. And to set the record straight, she said that Ursula Meese, wife of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, had been the Easter Bunny at the egg roll. So she had; Honegger's turn as a bunny was in a staff picture taken to cheer Press Secretary James Brady after he was shot during the assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rabbit Punches | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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