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But you can always pick out the little boys and girls who play in junior tennis tournaments, the rascals with the headbands scrunched down over furrowed little brows. Sullen looks, knee braces and mumbles about "bum draws." These kids accept intense jealousy, incessant selfdoubt and occasional deceit as the basis...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Next Great Net Star | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

There are some good signs. Carter reads the hot-line messages from Leonid Brezhnev with knitted brows. Question marks. He handles the few pages as if they were radioactive. They could be. He says each critical word as if destiny were buried in its syllables. That could be too. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Portrait of a Man Grown Larger | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Two thousand, eight hundred feet above the trailer a single engine plane stalls, glides and drops two black dots. They grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

AT THIS JUNCTURE, though, Pearson and King John take over as the most interesting characters on stage. While King John struggles with his own conscience--and a lust for power so strong that he orders his young nephew killed--Pearson projects paranoia and insecurity with shifting glances and frowning brows...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: A Shakespearean Soap Opera | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

He resembled a dapper cross between Groucho Marx and Rudyard Kipling; the same dark, emphatic brows, bristle-broom mustache, prognathic jaw and mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: S.J. Perelman | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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