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Word: tattoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month short of its sixth anniversary, MTV is singing a more troubled tune. Ratings have fallen off, and so has much of the excitement. A couple of hours spent watching MTV today reveal how quickly the avant-garde can become passe. With a few exceptions (the dazzling tattoo of animated images that illustrates Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer), videos have settled into a yawn-provoking rut. Typically they feature scenes of the band in performance intercut with snippets of a fanciful "story" or dressed up with now familiar visual gimmicks (cliche of the season: neoprimitive black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: MTV Faces a Mid-Life Crisis | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Jill made the Virginia Woolf tattoo on her bicep dance, brushed her crew cut and said, "I thought you were planning to get seriously into writing this term, Betty...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Rocker Dead in Writing Class | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...delight in the film, though, is what the Coen's don't include: the bits and pieces of plots and suggestions of plots that appear at the fringes of the frame: the strange prisoner who claims to eat sand, the Mad Biker's bronzed baby shoes, and an unexplained tattoo coincidence...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Coens Raise a Little Cain | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a demon road warrior, a warthog from hell who grenades rabbits and torches roadside flowers, can catch flies between his filthy fingers, and has a secret tattoo of Woody Woodpecker on his left pectoral. Gale and Evelle (lots of gender-bent names in this picture) lecture Ed on the importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior. Having kidnaped Nathan Jr. from the original kidnapers, Evelle wanders into a store and, just prior to robbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...impression in Freo that even at their own expense, the Australians are ready to warm him with a chorus of "good on yer." Picturing the town without Cup or customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle's heyday, it must have been a good place to get a tattoo, and in sleepier summers, the brilliant new bars and lavender boutiques may look a little dreary to the U.S. Navy warships that regularly put in to this liberty port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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