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Word: boyfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the applause wasn't ringing in my ears and I wasn't thinking about sex. I had to occupy my mind other ways. Usually I just sang teenage death songs. Laura's boyfriend Tommy drove to the stock car race and killed himself about 22 times during the course of the Marathon, and if that train didn't kill Teen Angel the first time, I imagine it had by the nineteenth...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking up the Bennies | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

...Boyfriend, Twiggy's back, and now she sings too, Cheri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Screen | 3/2/1972 | See Source »

...Boyfriend, Twiggy's back, and now she sings too, Cheri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...only if you're the type of person who can be bored at a light show. The stage is always in motion, the costumes are sumptuous, the imagination runs rife. What Russell did with Glenda Jackson as a fading star, he has done also to Sandy Wilson's "The Boyfriend" as a musical. Milking the musical tradition for all it is worth, he's put the cream onto the screen...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: What Every Girl Wants | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

...Friend--"All Singing, All Talking, All Dancing"--is just like an enormous plastic Christmas tree, thousands of gaudy decorations obscuring a very simple trunk, the girl-gets-boyfriend plot. The girl in question, Twiggy, gets the boy friend pretty much through divine right as star of the film and through no readily apparent merit of her own. As Polly Browne, understudy cum assistant stage manager of a seedy British theater, she is called out one day to replace the aging star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: What Every Girl Wants | 2/18/1972 | See Source »

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