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Word: spaceships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guessed it might be worth a few hundred bucks. Chong smokes billy-club sized joints and a cockroach he finds in the jar labelled "Roaches." Cheech sniffs salt thinking it's cocaine (and to climax this butguster drinks urine to slake his thirst). And at the end, a spaceship arrives to carry away all the pot bushes in a country field. Pretty humorous...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Smoked | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...believe you never heard of Alice Cooper! Don't you read T shirts?" Guess what? Travis becomes a roadie superstar and deposits Lola with Alice himself. But she follows the course of true love into the front seat of Travis' pickup truck-just as the spaceship from Close Encounters alights with a request for Travis to perform a quick lube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...agree with Gerald Clarke's thought that there isn't as much "effervescent giddiness" in The Empire Strikes Back as in Star Wars [May 19]. Even more than Star Wars, Empire made me want to jump in my spaceship and rush to help the rebels against Darth Vader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...audience watching the new show, A Cure by Laughter, at the Old Moscow Circus already suspects what "doctor" from outer space is going to pop out of that tiny spaceship landing in the single ring, and their delight is tangible. Sure enough, what emerges is no astronaut, considering the oversize checkered cap perched on unruly shocks of blond hair, black velvet jacket, red scarf, clodhopper shoes and, of course, trademark potato nose. After 30 years with the circus, Oleg Popov, 49, is regarded as the king of clowns even beyond Soviet borders. How long did it take to dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

What he can do is persist and prevail over most obstacles. When he thinks he is right, he is as stubborn as Chewbacca. When Luke doubts that he can raise his spaceship from the swamp, Yoda stamps his foot. "So sure are you?" he demands. "Tried have you? Always with you it can't be done. Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. There is no try." Remembering Lucas' childhood, his father, George Lucas Sr., recalls a blank stare when he tried to persuade his son to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back! | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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