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Word: ringers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craziness only starts there. Out of work and out of luck, Otto--who is played by Emilio Estevez, a dead ringer for his father. Martin Sheen--joins up with the repo men, getting a harsh initiation into the world of jimmying locks, seizing parked cars, and avoiding gunfire from disgruntled debtors. He thought he was tough, but here he meets some people who are really out on the fritz. Here's Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton), a frazzled repovet who first brings Otto into the business--getting him to help him with a difficult heist--and then befriends...

Author: By Michael J. Hirschorn., | Title: Out of Control | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...another, we have all felt it. If it were a color, we would say it comes in a thousand shades, from vivid reds to somber browns. There is the quick, flashing smart of a ringer scorched by a flame or the grinding torment of the dentist's drill striking close to a nerve. We all know the dull throb of a stubbed toe that sends us hippity-hopping from foot to foot in search of distraction. And many have felt the pain that cuts deeper: the gut-clutching agony that we awaken to after surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...many people . . . think that during the last 3½ years the world has moved closer to war?" Reagan had been prepped by two mock press conferences with his staff. "That is because that's all most of the people have been hearing . . . that I somehow have an itchy ringer and am going to blow up the world," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salvador's Supersalesman | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Although Colman introduced the going to Harvard. Fresh is not the first cowbell ringer Its originator is Adam Beren '83, who started playing his sophomore year "I saw someone from another school playing one, and I though it was a great idea," he said Beren played in "almost every game last year it was really big when the team won the Bean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Traditions Will Continue as Cowbell, Gong Are Bequeathed to the next Generation | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

...looks are no coincidence but rather part of an elaborate send, up of what Australians love to hate-the British and the Americans. Jackie's heartless, penny-pinching pub-tending mother (Margo Lee) is a dead ringer for Margaret Thatcher. Clad in a garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television...

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

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