Word: sweets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well is one of the more than 1,000 new discoveries in the so-called Austin chalk, a complex geological stratum that lies between Houston and Austin. Oilmen have long suspected that the area held many "sweet pots" of oil and natural gas, but they always lacked the incentive and technology to find them. Now better seismic analysis and the skyrocketing price of crude have made it profitable to search out smaller deposits. Hamlets in the area like Old Dime Box and La Grange have turned into boomtowns. In Giddings, the epicenter of the oilfield, houses that rented...
...retold. Teri, 47, was divorced from Frank Shields, 39, now a vice president of a New York executive head-hunting firm, after five months of marriage. She began trotting Brooke around to photographers' studios before the child could talk in sentences, stuck her in her first movie (Alice, Sweet Alice) when she was nine and pushed her forward at eleven for the controversial role of the child prostitute in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby. Teri had a severe drinking problem during that period, though no longer. She badly wanted money and fame for Brooke, and even...
...lights of Broadway; maybe they'll come back ready to take on the world of hoop intercollegiate competition, just like little orphan Annie and her vacuous stare takes on the big, bad world: maybe they'll be swishing to the sounds of Broadway like the Harlem Globetrotters and their Sweet Georgia Brown...
...cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world by shrinking the masses. They kidnap poor Pat to run experiments on her, but, with the help...
...leather-bound original rests with Gehring's sister, Doris Roberts of Freeport, Ill. If the President had been able to read on, he would have found that even heroes can be lonely. The next entry reads: "Getting a poor start. At 8:30, still in bed, singing Home Sweet Home...