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Word: stan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess I'll miss Taxi the most," Mary said, sighing her big sigh. "It was written by our writers-James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: R.I.P. the Honest Laugh | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Since December, Markoe and Letterman have been bunkered in a Manhattan hotel suite working on the show. They miss their Malibu, Calif., home and, most of all, their German shepherds, Bob and Stan. Dogs are a major topic of Letterman's comedy, and absence from Bob and Stan may help drive Letterman and Late Night to California. For now, though, there is plenty to smile about-and Letterman does, with his patented platypus grin. "I just want to make the show as playful as possible," he says. And why not? Hey folks, it's only Network Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Fernwood 4-Real | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Colby's academic rating of three stars out of a possible of five upset Colby President William R. Cotter '58, said Stan Nickelson, vice president of the college. Nickelson added that Cotter wrote a letter to Fiske and presented him with evidence showing how Fiske had erred...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Times Name Is Removed From College Guidebook | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

...these players transcend physical hockey and enter the realm of street crime. Others aren't that bad, and just play rough with the emphasis on the elbows. You can figure our who goes where. The team plays in Lynah Rink, Ithaca, and is covered effectively by hockey writer Stan Fischler...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fusco the Irishman and Other Stars | 2/12/1982 | See Source »

...After Bobby Jo's phone call, I got another from the Lawston Foundry, informing me that Stan Lewandowski's sculpture, Oppresso, would not be cast in time for the opening of the Minot Performing Arts Center. The foundry workers, after hearing what Lewandowski was being paid for creating what looked to them like a large gerbil cage, went out on strike . . . I wasted fifteen minutes trying to make a lunch date with Hugo Groveland, the mining heir, to discuss the Arts Mall. He was going away for a while . . . He hinted at dark personal tragedies . . . and suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street's Shy Revisionist | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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