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Word: rollings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second day, I had an egg-roll, a felafel, another shish-kebab, and an egg cream with a pretzel...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...order at the Blarney Stone was brisket on an onion roll--a huge sandwich that came with a plate of home fries and a bowl of thick homemade soup. I ate it at the back of the restaurant, where I could watch the mailmen...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...shish-kebab cart. The Greek couple that presided over this cart took about a minute and a half to pull some marinated beef off their grill and onto a hero roll, cover it with lettuce and tomatoes, sauteed onions and peppers and paint a little extra marinade on the inside of the roll. I had roast pheasant with truffles once, at a famous French restaurant, and it was almost as good as that hero...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...movie that cashes in on both the trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with the ungainly title Divorce Wars. The books on pop self-analysis which have bloated the "psychology" section of bookstores are the attempt of this generation to try and adjust rock-and-roll ethics to "parenting" and the rest of adulthood. It doesn't work. The two forty-bound protagonists of this latest addition to the tiresome genre keep talking about "learning to grow up." We seem to have no choice but to watch the maturing of our elders, the best-documented and most self...

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

...much less challenging character for Keaton's talents. Albert Finney portrays her husband George, the archetypal, egotistical-yet-vulnerable San Francisco writer. They bicker in a picturesque old clapboard house softly nestled in the bucolic mellowness of northern California. Of their daughters, the three younger ones giggle, fight and roll their eyes throughout, as if the movie were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes the oldest sister the most moving character in the film. Her tough, intense performance creates a girl almost too savvy and outspoken for a real...

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

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