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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to love watching baseball because I could see guys who had childhoods just like mine, and I could aspire to play along side of them. Now, I am afraid to watch baseball for fear of seeing my ideals crushed by a bunch of athletic criminals...

Author: By Eli Karsh, | Title: Cocaine Keith and Powder Parker | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...Class Marshal Tab T. Stewart '88 says, "It's purely a social situation." He says his club is a place to watch television or study and sponsors few community activities each year, such as painting houses...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Knocking on the Final Clubs' Closed Doors | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...pastel homes and matching mother-daughter outfits of a more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress. And no sweat, Baltimore: Waters has done you proud. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle (as a rat crawls through it). See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See Hairspray too. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...reasonable answer, then giving them a withering stare. He expects his staff to keep his own punishing 14-hour-a-day, six-day workweek. Building staff morale seems to be for sissies. Says another former aide: "You don't go to his house to have Thanksgiving dinner or watch football on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...concert segments which Frank included do seem to have the express intent of deglamorizing the musicians and their work. During a concert with Stevie Wonder, for example, we watch Mick Jagger awkwardly attempt to share a mike with the blind musician. He bends over Stevie's piano bench, dodges the waves of his unknowing head, looks exasperated and finally gives up. The one close-up on Stevie himself captures him as he accidentally knocks his dark glasses off and fumbles to slip them back...

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

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