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Word: surfer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Musing about the international itinerary of teen trendiness, Marciano adds, "American kids are inspired by the French, and the French are inspired by Californians." He points out that eye-scorching colors have been part of the Europeanized surfer look for the past three years. Dress-code breakers, think it over. How about a blazer that is citrus colored instead of navy? What about a pleated uniform skirt covered not with muted plaid but with surfer slogans? And traditionalists: What about some nice blue flannel bike-racing shorts? Wait till next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What The Kids Are Wearing | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...dressing room, teases out her hair and does her Whoopi Goldberg routine instead -- head rocking brainlessly from side to side, arms flopping in front of her like windshield wipers in the delay mode -- a white woman from Illinois imitating a black woman from New York imitating a surfer chick from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: Lip Sync Live, Onstage Tonight | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...SECOND act opens with the cast in surfer garb dancing in the aisles to "Under The Boardwalk" a la Wuthering Heights. But why not? Happy days are here again, the Ice Age has thawed, the dinosaur is extinct, the tomato is edible and the human race celebrates at a convention of mammals in Atlantic City...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Walk on the Wilder Side | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...know all of this is sort of trivial, but it's heartfelt nonetheless. I've always believed that if you're going to talk like a surfer, you have to surf, and if you're going to talk dirty, you have to talk dirty right. Besides, I like always get really pissed out when I hear people talk like that...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Linguistic Liberties | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

...near one of his favorite spots. "Surfing is probably my only feeling of freedom," says Johnston. "My mortgage payments are not in the water with me." John Milius, 42, co-writer of Apocalypse Now and writer-director of Big Wednesday, the 1978 surfing epic, calls himself a surfer first and anything else second. "I'll be surfing until they carry me away," Milius says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: If Everybody Had an Ocean . . . | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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