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Word: cheeking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlotte, starting with the sound; as in many current productions, the microphones have been so amplified that Gerald Jay Markoe's songs lose much of their tunefulness and practically blast back-row patrons out of their seats. Nevertheless, Markoe shows a gift for hummability in tongue-in-cheek ballads, including Liverpool Sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Music Hall Turn | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python at her thigh. For Atkins, that meant posing in the outfit that he is best known for on-screen and lying cheek by jowl with a 6-ft.-long, 20-lb. female boa constrictor. The result is a gripping bit of publicity, although Freud might be puzzled about just what Atkins is really revealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 16, 1982 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...problems with the Royal Marines here before," says Cheek. "We lost five girls one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...damages: seven houses were totally destroyed and 80 shot up in the capital, mostly by the British navy. Nor is there any escape from the fears that the Argentines may attack again, or that a future British government might hand the islands over to Argentine sovereignty anyway. Says Gerald Cheek: "Quite a lot of people have talked about moving away, myself included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...able to take it. He must be a Zen stoic who overdoses on pain in order to prove himself to himself. In Barbarosa, Willie Nelson lies placidly in his own new grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Machochists | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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