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Word: stuporous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does his best to keep Jinxed moving along smoothly. But he has nothing to work with, not even good trash. Sitting through Jinxed is like staring at your T.V. when nothing decent is on but there's nothing better to do. At least here, if your sensibility overcomes your stupor, the Donkey Kong in the lobby is better than anything you can get on your Atari...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Low-Level Wastes | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

...public image of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The art world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi, and the press showed its usual gullibility about the steep differences between publicity price, asking price and real discounted price. This classic hype was carried out, against the backdrop of a teetering art market, on a scale not seen since the promotion of Bernard Buffet in Paris at about the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Expressionist Bric-a-Brac | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...Mdwaukee Hoewers, leading 3.2 are maposition tow tap up baseball's 79th World songs fought in St. Louis in game 6 at x 2 p.m. The Brewers Don Sutton, 4.2 since coming next from Houston on Aug. 30, will face Cardmal rookie John Stupor 1971 make match of came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/19/1982 | See Source »

This startling sensitivity for criminals and others beset with problems is drawn with equal explicitness on the cuts which follow "Nebraska." An unemployed autoworker in the song "Johnny 99" kills someone in a drunken stupor, for which he gets a 99-year prison term. The first-person explanation...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Bold Departure | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...FIRST THING you heard about Elvis Costello was that he was the "angry young man" of the British new wave. Probably the second was that in a drunken stupor he once got in an argument with members of the Steven Stills Band and called Ray Charles "a blind, ignorant nigger" in a misbegotten effort to outrage his adversaries. Most recently, if you've been paying close attention, you hear that E.C. has recently "matured and has metamorphosed into the the Cole Porter of the 80s," has created the "new Seargent Pepper" with his new album, Imperial Bedroom, and is generally...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

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