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Word: rhyming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sings, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," whose introduction contains the cliche-ridden lyric. "You wouldn't believe it/ Coming from a girl you once knew/ Although she dressed up to the nines/ At sixes and sevens with you." An otherwise wonderful "High Flying Adored" includes this unusual rhyme; "I'm their savior. That's a what they call me/ So Lauren Bacall me." Fortunately, though, the last lyrics are overshadowed by stage action as Evita rushes back and forth, gradually transforming herself from a slip-clad frump to a Dior stunner...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Glamor Girl | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

...however, a Beatles version of an obscure Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas single, a Lennon-McCartney composition titled I'll Be on My Way. It is the sweetest surprise of the package. With a chorus that sounds as simple and sentimental as a child's school rhyme ("As the June light/ Turns to moonlight/ I'll be on my way"), the song shows the Beatles at their most wistful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Before History Took Over | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...remains undecided on his choice of concentration, however "Well, they don't have a phys-ed major, so I guess I'll go pre-med, at least the two rhyme," Watson joked...

Author: By Neal Shultz, | Title: Dan Watson: National Champ | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...assumed that every viewer has the lyrics deep enough under his pop-cultured hide that they are aroused just by the melody? Then Faith must sing it again--now translated into English--while alone in the bathtub, choked up by pain which is merely cheapened by rhyme. These banal songs are not merely the underpinnings of the sensibilities of these characters, but, sadly, the only form in which they can express themselves. Even when she's not singing. Faith utters profoundly empty phrases such as. "You helped me grow from a girl into a woman... I sang all the music...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Mid-Life Boredon | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...beautician training center, and congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed in a classroom, shouting out a rhyme that sounds like "Ring-Around-a-Rosy." Their desks levitate with the noise. At the side of the room opposite the door sits Hilda, bouncing with the others. She sees the grownups and waves. Then she makes her fingers into the sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: What Good Is This Revenge? | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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