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Word: packed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other's houses, exchange presents, share holidays. So long as they accept each other at face value, the relationship works. But when they stop to examine what they really know about each other, they uneasily sense that their affection could be based on what Playwright Hugh Whitemore calls a Pack of Lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: False Friends Pack of Lies | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard women's hockey team looked as though it might stick with the pack and capture its last ever Ivy League title but in the end its endmance faltered...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Big Red Derails Icewomen, 2-1; Harvard's Ivy Hopes Demolished | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...drugs-jazz influenced Beatniks of the 1950s and 60s, it has reincarnated itself as a 33-year project by the most howling of all the beats, Allen Ginsberg. Although he might not have envisioned a full text of all his work when he wrote the poems that pack his new book, Ginsberg proclaims his Collected Poems 1947-1980 an autobiography...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Back to Haunt | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

...more than comfortably warm, especially under his collar. Two days later the Washington Post published a long story noting that not only Sinatra but also Entertainers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached for an interview by Barbara Howar of TV's Entertainment Tonight, Sinatra snarled: "You read the Post this afternoon? You're all dead, every one of you. You're all dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party Time in Washington | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...script of Pack of Lies had been made into a film, the results might have been different. The tension, paranoia, and anguish inadequately present in the text could have been drawn out and accentuated by a talented film director. Clifford Williams, the luckless captain of this production, can do no more than block the actors and leave them to themselves...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: It's Better on Television | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

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