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Word: thompson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to move around. The aisles will be stick with vomit, people falling down and grabbing at your legs to keep from getting stomped. Drunks passing on themselves in the betting lines. Dropping handfuls of money and fighting to stoop over and pick it up. Hunter S. Thompson. "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Derby Daze | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...writing in 1970, Thompson, the drug-driven madman journalist who lived in Louisville (or "Looahvull," to say it properly) for his first 18 years, may have seen a darker side of the event, so seemingly out of place in that turbulent time...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Derby Daze | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...records, neither Lauper's nor Madonna's efforts come within a mile of Tina Turner's splendid album of racked soul, Private Dancer, or get into the depth and irony explored by Linda Thompson on the just released One Clear Moment. But, as pop icons, Lauper and Madonna are exerting more power right now than any other women on the scene. With her squashed face looking as if it is pressed perpetually behind glass, Lauper is every lost girl's projection of success: a little nutty, a lot mocking and splendidly vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...hoop fans couldn't help but notice the irony in last Saturday's Harvard-Princeton showdown that had Tiger John Thompson, Jr. guarding the Crimson's Bob Ferry...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Princeton Gives Cagers New Hope | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...biggest names in Washington basketball are John Thompson. Sr.--the coach of defending national champion Georgetown--and Bob Ferry, Sr.--the general manager of the Washington Bullets...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Princeton Gives Cagers New Hope | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

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