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Word: sofa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leather handbags." On excess jewelry: a "lower-middle-class or nouveau riche indicator of sensual laxity." The "Annie Hall" look: "I'm only playing; I'm not really big enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle become difficult." On high heels: "The halting tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocative-perhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her." On edible underwear: "If clothes were words, these would be like talking with your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exposing Secrets of the Closet | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Towering Infernos | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...freedom for the hostages, not partisan fingerpointing, was on Carter's mind as he sweated out his final two days in the Oval Office. After napping on a sofa for only 45 minutes Sunday night, he appeared in the White House press room at 4:56 a.m. Monday, his face drawn and devoid of emotion, to announce: "We have now reached an agreement with Iran that will result, I believe, in the freedom of our American hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: An End to the Long Ordeal | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Dear Abby: Our 19-year-old daughter Caroline has started going with a guy named Angelo. He never takes her anyplace. He just comes over every night to watch television and wear out our sofa ... What should I do? Kitchen Sitter

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Homespun Zaps and Zingers | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Uncommon Women is an ordinary living room, dining room and sofa. There is no stage or seats, so the audience sits on the floor amongst the actresses. In some productions, mixing actors and audience serves a legitimate theatrical value; in Uncommon Women, there is no purpose to such an arrangement. Not only is it inconvenient for the actors to climb over the audience in order to move from the living room to the dining room to the sofa, but the seating is quite uncomfortable when there is a full house...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Not Just Folks | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

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