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Word: streetlamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maria lives just west of Third, on a dead-end street where END has been crossed off the sign. The windows in her house are blue. She heads home after a tutoring session in chemistry. Mallory lives just off Sixth Avenue, near the Park Slope line. A streetlamp sheds a pale beam in a circle in front of his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

WHEN THE AUDIENCE files into the Old Library, the set for The Cradle Will Rock consists of only one object--an awkward cardboard-like streetlamp. The lights dim to blackness, a jarring piano theme begins, and quite suddenly the streetlamp switches on, illuminating a prostitute leaning against it. It is the first of many delicate and imaginative effects in a double-bill evening that provides more food for thought than most troupes could gracefully handle...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Labor and Love | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

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