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Word: archness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saves Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as despotically as his arch-rival. The two men look strikingly similar and have so many of the same insane idiosyncrasies that by the end of the movie we're not sure that Danny's isn't just being converted to another obsession...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Cult-ivation | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...Mines and Men," by Michael McClung '83 features the struggle of the ingenue, Angela Mercy, and her true-love, Dwight Tornado, to recover Angela's gold mine from the clutches of the arch-villain, Gustav Yuvantsum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Chooses Western For Spring Show | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

...sporting a pair of barbells ? women rarely exercised to keep themselves in shape or style. Too often they simply mutilated their bodies. For a thousand years Chinese women bound their feet so tightly that a natural "high heel" was formed, and toes were twisted irreversibly under the arch; African women used discs to form platypus lips; in Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion in female bodies was ethereal, emaciated; a tubercular fragility was considered attractive. Women subsisted on a diet of vinegar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...south west corner of the Yard is a gate bearing in its comet arch, the directive, "Open yo the Gates that the righteous Nation which keeps the truth Entereth in." But this entrance between Strauss Hall and Lahrriun Hall will be locked at least until the middle of September as construction workers move it forward a few feet...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Subway Extension Ties Up Square | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

Some 1 million keyed-up rock fans poach under the midday sun at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. There are 600 police officers at your disposal, but you still face the classic problem of transporting the feature star to center stage without getting him mobbed. If you are Lieut. Colonel James Hackett, 50, of the St. Louis police force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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