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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't watch the presidential debate on Sunday night. I felt bad about it at first--as though I wasn't interested enough in the issues, as though I didn't care enough about national events...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Personality Over Platform | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

Before Puerto Rico plays the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, my father tells me, "Watch out for Butch...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Nerf Balls and Olympic Dreams | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

More than 200 substance-starved spectators squeezed into the Kennedy School's Town Hall last night to watch Vice President George Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis do battle in their first television debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Partisan Crowd Packs K-School for Debate | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...museum's curators are eager to convince you of the seriousness of their enterprise, and some of the text panels read like term papers. Ignore them; play hooky in your trash-collector's soul. Enter phone booth-shaped screening rooms to watch clips from All About Eve or Mary Tyler Moore's last episode with commentary from Directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Jay Sandrich. Model costumes of the stars, like Marilyn Monroe's dress from The Seven Year Itch, before a fun-house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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