Word: watch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warning signs of obsession are usually evident long before fans attack. Overardent admirers talk incessantly about their idols. They watch their films again and again or play their recordings over and over. They neglect responsibilities at home, school or work. Sometimes they devote an entire room to a celebrity, filling it with photographs and clippings, making it a sort of shrine. "Families should take this seriously," warns Dietz, "but they usually don't." The next step in the compulsion often involves travel, according to De Becker, first in a random pattern, then with a purpose: to follow the object...
IRONICALLY, I will always remember Yaz for one of those "moments." It was The Game--the 1978 American League East one-game playoff between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, and I watched it amid cartons in the empty living room of the house my family had moved into. The first thing I unpacked was the television so that I could watch the game...
...know that Van Dyke guy is related to Dick Van Dyke? Remember his show with Mary Tyler Moore? I still watch it on Nick at Nite...
BOSTON--Massachusetts revenue officials, ever on the watch for a new tax source, are planning to expand their efforts at tapping the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers by levying the state sales tax on their illegal transactions...
...Phoenix hotel, a gaggle of aging boxing groupies watch the hulk as he works out. Foreman is like the dynamo of old, steadily pounding home sledgehammer blows. Five rounds later and barely sweating, he halts to regale the faithful. "I should be carrying a cane," he jests. "My training camp is Baskin-Robbins. But if Tyson wins, it's only Lamborghinis and big houses for himself. Means nothing. If I win, every man over 40 can grab his Geritol and have a toast...