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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status, of the Los Angeles hotels favored by showfolk. He does it perfectly, beginning with the Bel-Air, ending with the Montecito. This may seem a small felicity, but it is precisely the sort of thing that writers of parboiled Hollywood romans à clef usually get wrong or skip altogether in their haste to get to the casting couch and the boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laid-Back Camaraderie | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...will rehearse two and there might be seven rehearsals they will ask you to come to, all in the middle of the day. Now what I would do, because I had school, would be to pick about four to go to. If you pick the right rehearsals, you can skip a lot and still be in it with no problem. If you pick the wrong rehearsals, you miss the day, for example, when they give out costumes--that's it, you're through. You get bumped...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

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