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Word: wagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening weekend included gondoliers from Venice, laser beams playing over the Empire State Building, and 1,000 schoolchildren, police and Australian lifeguards performing the whimsical A Day in the Life of Coney Island under the direction of Jacques d'Amboise. These items attracted the attention of the station-wagon set. Other performances were, aptly, more serious and even arcane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Coney Island of the Mind | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Harriet and David exemplify a modern bourgeois ideal--lots of kids, big house, station wagon and such. But the ideal is built on dependency and is oblivious to the world around...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: There's a Monster in the House | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Witnesses said a blue Chevy station wagon, traveling up JFK Street at about 15 mph, was approaching the intersection just after 4 p.m. when it veered to the left. A local woman, who requested anonymity, said the car did not appear to slow down as it struck a bystander near the curb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Car Hits Pedestrian, Scooter on Mt. Auburn | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Then There Were Nine | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

COCKSUCKER Blues contains few moments of the Stones talking to the camera. Generally we are overhearing what they say, and usually it's rubbish: Mick, for example, ordering a fruit plate from room service, bitching about the heat in a station wagon, or mumbling nonsense while slipping into his psychedelic stage costume. A significant part of the soundtrack is just ambient sound, whether it be a radio or TV playing in the background or just someone mumbling behind the camera. Frank entirely avoids the obviously glamorous option of playing loud Stones music through the entire film, which would effectively have...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Galled Stones | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

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