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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheapest, thinnest beer around. The bikers and townies start brawling by 11 P.m Watch for broken glass Charlie's Kitchen, on Eliot St. offers a decent grill menu (the cheese burger platter is a great filler-upper) and a big screen for sporting even upstairs. No tough stuff but dominated by natives who don't care where you prepped. Harvard Provision, on Mt. Auburn St. sells by the case for the economical consiner...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...gentleman." He enrolls in Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, a form of organized flagellation that we are led to believe makes all other brands of basic training look like the vicar's lawn party. Underneath Zack's sullen exterior, the discerning eye can detect "the right stuff," as it were. The discerning eye in this case belongs to a black drill sergeant, played with malevolent high spirits by Louis Gossett Jr. Of course, Zack's spirit will first have to be broken, a process Gossett undertakes with relish. Then too Zack will have to Learn to Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Mac | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...Cuba, Vargas Llosa now campaigns against totalitarian regimes of the left and the right. He is a backer of Poland's Solidarity movement and a former president of the P.E.N. club, the international writers' organization that monitors the restriction of free expression. This is the stuff that puts writers on the Nobel Prize track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latins and Literary Lovers | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...part. King writhes and oscillates madly like a maniacal giraffe at the center of the stage, his primitive, guttural, and thoroughly expressive voice bounding through the controlled disorder let loose by his bandmates. To watch is a riveting experience, whether or not you have heard the Gang's stuff before...

Author: By Micheal J. Abranosrit, | Title: Gang Politics | 8/3/1982 | See Source »

...course, if you have heard their stuff, seeing them live can be downright illuminating, for more than most bands the Gang defines itself in concert. The sheer responsibility of leading that flock of faithful followers dancing wildly before them evokes the best of the Gang. The brutal drive of King and Gill--suffused by the stylish yet restrained nature of a record-comes to life, egged on by the demanding presence of the audience...

Author: By Micheal J. Abranosrit, | Title: Gang Politics | 8/3/1982 | See Source »

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