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Word: pisses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though intended as parody, a "piss-take" the Aussies would call it, of the old-fashioned movie musical. Starstruck is more than cotton candy. The difference lies in Armstrong's deadly satiric aim and her choice of targets. In attempting to make fun of the awkward staginess of giant musical production numbers, she produces routines which transcend that awkwardness, so that one can really imagine Julius and company breaking into song sporadically. Jo Kennedy and Ross O'Donovan play their characters not as stereotypical angry young punks, but as lonely eccentrics, breathing life into Jackie and Angus...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Punk Fluff With Spikes | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

...lack of expressiveness from his father: in the first big scene between him and the girl, Magda(Aniko Ivan), the two snap mechanically at each other. The listless interchange culminates when Dini hold Magda's arm, saying, "I won't let you go." Magda yanks free with a curt "piss off" and walks away...

Author: By M. Daniels, | Title: Blue Fog Is Blue Fog | 2/10/1983 | See Source »

October 14, 9:04.--Officers sent to disperse a crowd in front of Holyoke Center arrested David T. Manden of Somerville for disorderly behavior. When officers approached the 28-year-old man near Dunster St., he continued to shout obscenities and began to urinate, allegedly telling police, "I can piss wherever I want...

Author: By Joseph Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...which the wind delivers far and wide, every member well-versed in the words to all the chants, they seemed larger than their numbers, these Libertarians, these Socialist Workers, these International Socialists Another 5 per cent of the crowd is relatively unclassifiable--including the smiling, paunchy gays holding the "Piss on the Pentagon" banner, the toothless fellow dressed up as Uncle Sam advising men to sign up for "Husband's Lib." The rest, a melange, college students for the most part, mixed with a few veterans of other older movements. Past the J. Edgar Hoover Building, home...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Revolution Number Ten | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...characters reveal themselves through theatrical gestures: Bunny, swilling a bottle of Scotch ("horse piss") on her balcony and threatening to jump; Lucille presiding over a spaghetti dinner like Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu, stabbing stray meatballs on others' plates with birdlike speed; Francis excoriating his family and friends and demolishing his birthday cake; his father describing the day his wife left home, whereupon he took a pickaxe, smashed the sidewalk, and planted a fig tree that has grown into a majestic symbol of le Beau Geste...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

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