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Word: watchin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what're you doin'?" Jack (John Lurie), a pimp, asks one of his girls sitting outside in the New Orleans dusk. "Just watchin' the light change," she exhales. But watchin' the light change is the big payoff in a Jim Jarmusch movie. Stranger Than Paradise, a cult hit of 1984, cased its lowlifes with the metallic impassiveness of a closed-circuit monitor in a 7-Eleven store. You could find the proceedings funny or tedious; Jarmusch was too hip to care. He does have an eye, though, and aided by Cinematographer Robby Muller he makes Down by Law a ravishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weird Trios and Fun Couples | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...watchin' the Jeffersons on TV til I be blue in da face...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Voces Clamantium in Deserto | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

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