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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blur. You can hear the laughter, but the rest is too much to take in at once. Television tunnel-visions the real Olympics, the stuff that goes on in the streets. Stop for a second and two U.S. ski team members walk by. They are celebrities and they flaunt it, waving at everyone, smiling at all the women. There is music blaring from the speed skating rink. There are scalpers everywhere. You just want to know everyone here-all the athletes and athlete lovers and students...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Man and Superman in Lake Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...freezing beyond comprehension but it's perfect, like a big Hollywood production, full of appealing and unbelievable stimuli--too many faces and noises and victories and cameras and rumors and foreign languages and famous people--and too little real stuff like food and warmth and places to sit down. It's impossible to grasp. Watching it on television is easy by comparison...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Man and Superman in Lake Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinkies on the Wing | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...nothing about his on-camera appearances to chance, including apparently spur-of-the-moment remarks. "We all give prior thought to our ad libs," says CBS News Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, "but Dan even writes down the colloquialisms in his ad libs. He thinks them through, and they give his stuff a quality." Indeed, Rather's Lone Star tropes have become something of a trademark. Interviewing G.O.P. Presidential Contender George Bush last month on 60 Minutes, Rather remarked. "To use a Texas phrase, there are people who say that George Bush is a nice fellow but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Houston Hurricane | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Good Stuff...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Hoopsters Vanquished by B.U., 88-49 Prospective Olympian Debra Miller Stands Out | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

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