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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caesars Palace, a hotel and casino organized around a spurious Greco-Roman theme. Locally, the Goddesses are dubbed coneheads, after the shape of the false hairpiece that is part of the costume. Unchanged since the hotel opened in 1966, the uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying a tray of drinks in one hand, give a thin gloss of glamour to a job that is a grueling eight-hour hike in high heels. But, says Goddess Bonnie Arrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...week, he can simply lounge around all morning in his blue cotton nightshirt on the brick patio overlooking a small, oval swimming pool. His mother, an excellent cook, prepares meals for everyone. By noon of one busy morning, she already had dinner made: a variation on shepherd's pie with layers of potatoes, red onions and scallions, green peas and sautéed turkey, topped by a layer of Jiffy biscuit mix-accompanied, as are most Lewis meals, by corn on the cob and a salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Carl Lewis: Man in the Eye of a Media Hurricane | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Still, the damage was done, not least to the perceptions of tennis followers. Because she long ago admitted her bisexuality, and because she is not, in Billie Jean King's phrase, "a cutie pie," Navratilova, even without controversy breaking around her, sometimes appears to be playing in a segregated tournament all her own. Wimbledon seems to give her less Centre Court time than a player of her stature deserves. And U.S. television did not cover one of her matches complete until there were virtually no other women's matches it could show. As a result, many people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best of All Time? | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...downs and its antiquated early tactics. But he never loses admiration for the sacrificial pilot, and his sentiments are dead on target: midway between Catch 22 and The Winds of War. A natural for a PBS miniseries, Piece of Cake could run on Masterpiece Theater just as easy as pie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...Annie is fine except for a slight learning disability," one mother wrote. "Charlie was stuffing Cracker Jacks up his nose today with Carey Allen's assistance. They tried shaving a couple of months ago. Between the school's Halloween carnival (chairmanship, of course), a pumpkin pie in the oven and the twins, here is a very big thank you. I am selfish, I certainly swear, and we sure laugh a lot!" -By John Skow. Reported by William McWhirter/Phoenix

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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