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Word: springsteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruce Springsteen music was blaring over the public address system and a man kept interrupting the tunes to make announcements in English, French, and Spanish...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running on Empty | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

What else can a year of service do for you? It can make you less ignorant. These days, Ivy Leaguers think that being a Springsteen fan means you are "in touch" with America. Well, there's a lot more to being "in touch" than playing records, and only the few of us that led unusual childhoods can say they truly know America. Growing up in suburbia, I only know about upper-middle class, mostly white Americans. When urban riots or farm failures are mentioned to me, my first and only image comes from the television set. A lot of this...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Mom's Demands and the Government's | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

They looked like kids on a high school field trip, clad in Levi's and Springsteen sweatshirts, lining up by the hundreds at the entrance to a tepee. These students, though, were Indians, and the healing ritual to which they were invited was solemnly dedicated to saving their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wind River's Lost Generation | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...ever get tired of listening to your Bruce Springsteen records, Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library has something a little different for you: tapes of 81 World War II-era phonograph records advertising Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Tapes Veggie Records With Grant | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...bleach-brained "Freeway of Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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