Search Details

Word: swinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yuppie shows are easy to spot. CBS's Everything's Relative revolves around two brothers who share a New York apartment and a nagging mother. One (John Bolger) is a blue-collar swinger; the other (Jason Alexander), a buttoned-down yuppie who does consumer research for products like sushi-on-a-stick. In NBC's My Two Dads, two bachelors get joint custody of a twelve-year-old girl, whom one of them -- no one knows which -- has fathered. Again, they are a contrasting pair: Greg Evigan is a free-spirited artist, Paul Reiser a compulsive financial analyst who describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Yup, Yup and Away! | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...some of those in attendance were not concerned with perfecting their swing ability so much as perfecting the moves of a swinger...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

Septuagenerian Swinger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...little droll, he was "hitterish," and Reggie's interest extended to sending Joyner bats and calling him in Edmonton (home of the AAA Trappers). Again Joyner accumulated only a dozen homers for the season, but proceeding directly to a winter league in Puerto Rico, the smoothest left-hand swinger on the island hit 14 more in 54 games. Without a break, he continued on to the major leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reggie and the Rookie | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...they split up. Cook worked in London while Moore tried his luck in Hollywood. The following year he co-starred with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn as a sex-crazed swinger in the movie Foul Play. Since then he has never been idle, and rarely lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cuddly Dudley, the Wee Wonder | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next