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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided against giving the Lampoon this advice, however. For if members stopped producing their parodies and throwing their parties, they might feel compelled to (tell their agent to) produce more normal Lampoon issues with normal Lampoon jokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greed Humor | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Answer: Five. One to tell the Lampoon's agent to do it, and four to sit around and pat each other on the back for being so darn funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greed Humor | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they won't tell you." Pack insisted that he had knowledgeable sources for his numbers. A ^ Washingtonian editor, however, acknowledged that such stories are "ball-park estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Wife Nancy continues to make Leona Helmsley seem as good-natured as your Aunt Libby. My Turn, the long awaited tell-nothing autobiography of the woman who "shared a bed with the President" is finally being released. Thank God. I'll need something to tide me over between Roseanne Barr's memoirs and Zsa-Zsa Gabor's sure-to-be-published account of her incarceration...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Reagan II: He's Back | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

Besides, if she doesn't stay on my good side, I might have to tell everyone about the hideous date she took to the senior prom. Facts are such stubborn and useful things--especially for big brothers...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: The Pros and Cons of Harvard Siblings | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

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