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Word: stags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circular shells conjure images of tiny oceangoing Darth Vaders, pair up, with the smaller male crabs locking themselves atop the females' spiny shells with special pincers. For many less fortunate males, who vastly outnumber the females, the frenzy is more like a wretched high school dance: they form a stag line on the beach. Then, when a female, bearing a suitor on her back, wallows up and begins to burrow in the sand where she will lay about 4,000 eggs, as many as 15 lusty males struggle in the waves to pile on. All the males, their long spiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Jersey Shoreline | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...describe the plot -- in which we learn that Graham can reach sexual climax only while watching videotapes he has made of women's carnal confessions -- is to make sex, lies sound like a smirking stag reel. But this is not an "adult film" in the X-rated sense; it is an adult film, "patient and subtle," in its creator's apt words. It is about men who use women by watching them, and women tired of being the object of satyric attention. What amazes is that at just 26, Soderbergh displays the three qualities associated with mature filmmakers: a unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Earlier this year, when BATF was considering a Stag's Leap AVA for the southern part of the valley, the modest (49 acres) S. Anderson winery spent nearly $40,000 to make the case that it belongs inside the boundaries. "Appellations like Stag's Leap are going to have more meaning in the future," says marketing director John Anderson. P.S.: his vineyard made the district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Napa Valley's Gripes of Wrath | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...play is the second installment of what is expected to be a trilogy, Melvin said. The ART put on Gozzi's first piece in the series, "The King Stag," two years...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: American Repertory Theater Celebrates 10 Years at Harvard With Premiere, Fete | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

Confronted by the Customs agents in Tampa last week, one of the financiers could not believe at first that the agents were serious. Taking the arrest routine for a stag-party prank, he began to laugh as the cuffs snapped closed, and he shouted, "All right! Let's party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cash Cleaners | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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