Word: brows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andre Patenaude, 48, stepped forward, bowed deeply and began singing: "You must sell goods with the sweat of your brow . . ." When he finished, the crowd burst into applause. One of the other singers screamed, "You passed!" and flung himself at Patenaude in a congratulatory embrace. The crowd applauded again. "I don't know what it is," said a young woman pushing her grocery cart toward the parking lot, "but they sure are serious about...
Literature has gone to pot because all the great young writers and Mark Twains of today are now in Hollywood writing the Great American Screenplay. Thus novels today stink and are too caught up in the high-brow theories of our great colleges and boring to read...
...strand of pearls clings to her red TIME T shirt and beads of perspiration moisten her brow, but the figure crouched behind home plate is meticulous and imperturbable. Even on the diamond as catcher for TIME's softball team, Chief of Research Betty Satterwhite Sutter exudes the calm presence that she carries through hectic workdays. "I've been playing softball since I was eleven," says Satterwhite, who once won the team's most-improved-player award. "It helps me feel young. Besides, the camaraderie on our team, with people you work and play with, carries over into the office...
Only a year ago Cannon Group provoked sneers -- and envy -- in Hollywood with such low-brow but high-profit films as Death Wish 3 and Breakin'. Now the studio is a fallen star. Cannon is slashing its production schedule this year by more than 65%. The studio last month narrowly avoided filing for bankruptcy because of its debt load, which reached $200 million at the end of 1985. Warner Communications at least temporarily rescued the studio by investing $75 million in exchange for a 23% stake in Cannon stock and $25 million worth of company bonds...
...quarter-century by Klimt or, for that matter, Miro. But in the head, this graphic energy is subordinated to volume, to the immobile self-containment of a man who, Van Gogh realized, "has seen an enormous amount of suffering and death." The chin and mouth are compressed, but the brow bulges irresistibly from its pale background, the relation between head and coat subtly maintained by the black strokes of hair and mustache and the unwavering darkness of Trabuc's eyes...