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Word: wets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the left-leaning media and Big Media against Adler, The New Yorker, the military and Big Law. William Safire, The New York Times' resident right-winger, also got into the act recently. He gave the "offended media giants, radical hatchet men and suing spooks" 40 lashes with a wet noodle for suppressing publication of her book--something media-types, he said, should be the last...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: A Full Court Press | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...Very rainy," read the weather report at the Stadium for Saturday's Harvard-Massachusetts football game, "Very wet, very dismal...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing (the Blues) in the Rain | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

That, if anything, was an understatement. Cambridge awoke Saturday morning to a steady drizzle which turned, by game-time, into a steady rain. At times during the contest, the precipitation bordered on a downpour. On the increasingly swampy field, 22 wet, muddy and generally unhappy football players slogged it out in a meaningless non-conference game...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing (the Blues) in the Rain | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...dance. E. Max Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches from romance to farce to terror. Only Ray Liotta, as a crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...notion seems so preposterous that I advance it without much confidence, the way a man might hold out a six-pack of beer in a bag with a wet bottom...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: A Strange Yearning for The Truth | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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