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Word: pees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...grant one exception to the one-time-only, one-in-365 theory. A guy on my pee-wee Little League team was born the day the Red Sox clinched the pennant in 1967. Naturally, he is a Red Sox fan, and naturally, he will probably approach baseball for the rest of his life with an unusually sunny outlook. Who wouldn't, born under such lucky stars...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Baseball: A Real Sport for Real People | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...They are like dogs who go and pee around the corners," the member of parliament said. "They stand up and I say 'here we go again. He's peeing...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Ferarro, Women Leaders Announce New Institute | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Ever since his pee-wee team won the national title when he was 12 years old, Ciavaglia has been a winner. He attended high school at Nichols where he became a local Gordie Howe during his senior year...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Not Badgered Into Coming to Harvard | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...Elmer Award is given in honor of Elmer Green, the former caretaker and friend of the Lampoon who died in 1977. Previous recipients in the prize's 10-year history have included Bill Cosby, John Candy and Pee Wee Herman...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

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