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Word: flicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, Chris Collet, clad in a t-shirt, blue jeans, and Topsiders, doesn't look the kind of person who'd play a battered child adopted by a drag queen in the Torch Song Trilogy or a teen who gets decapitated in the horror flick Sleepaway Camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

...strength of just one Bambi Taylor flick of a wrist, the Crimson dropped the nation's sixth-ranked University of Massachusetts squad, 1-0, and gave itself the shot in the arm it's been looking for since season's start...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Stickwomen Shock Sixth-Ranked Minutemen 1-0 | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

...other end of the field, the Minutemen held the hosts in check, and if not for one quick Crimson flick of a wrist, the visitors might have left town with a scoreless...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Stickwomen Shock Sixth-Ranked Minutemen 1-0 | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

...hottest marketing battles of recent years. On one side was Gillette's inexpensive Cricket lighter (price: about 70?), which could be used for months and then thrown away. On the other was Bic's equally disposable model (69?), famed for the slogan "Flick my Bic!" But after more than a decade of struggling, Gillette last week conceded defeat. The Boston-based company said it planned to sell its Cricket line to Swedish Match, a leading European lighter maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extinguished | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...vainly to see the UHS dermatogist for the second, out if Saturday night finds you alone and without the mental stamina to distinguish formulation two of Kant's categorical Imperative from formulation three, then see Bad Manners, a sometimes tacky, sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless, but nearly always funny flick...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

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