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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like them -- up to date but fundamentally unchanged. The record kicks off with Sad Sad Sad, a creditable attempt to capture again the dynamics of the group's early sound, when the rhythm came in solid sheets and the lyrics sounded as if they were being spit out of a semiautomatic weapon. After that, it bustles through a very commercial, danceable tune or two, a couple of extravagant experiments (including Terrifying, with some heavy jazz underpinnings) and a few desultory rockers, performed with practiced agility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...Even when his show was moved to 4 a.m., I watched him. I used to tape him sometimes and play the tape during breakfast. He was so funny one time that I spit up Cocoa Puffs all over my table. The milk even came out of my nose...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...case involved Gregory ("Joey") Johnson, 32, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, who torched an American flag outside the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you," chanted the crowd. Until now, despite the frequency with which the flag had been burned at antiwar rallies in the 1960s and '70s, the Supreme Court had avoided a direct ruling on whether the Government could prohibit such acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O'Er The Land of The Free | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

James Earl Jones, who co-stars in Field of Dreams, was at first skeptical of Cooping up Costner. "But watching Kevin on the monitor on location," he says, "I had to admit: it was Gary Cooper. For one thing, Gary Cooper was always looking to spit. He and Kevin have the same pucker in the mouth." For his part, Costner wouldn't mind going back in time to get back in the saddle. "I'd have loved to spend five or six years in the studio system," he says, "doing all those cowboy pictures. I was born 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Among the most offensive purveyors of brutality to women are slasher films. The movies that inaugurated the trend, including Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street, are now tame compared with such opuses as I Spit on Your Grave or Splatter University. The main features: graphic and erotic scenes of female mutilation, rape or murder. Slasher films are widely shown on cable TV, and video shops do a booming business in rentals, especially among eleven-to-15-year-olds. Youngsters watch three or four at a clip at all-night "gross-out" parties. In some fraternity houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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