Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Selleck, the 6-ft. 4-in., 200-lb. star of CBS's Magnum, P. I., which premiered in 1980. A genial shoot-'em-up, Magnum is set in Hawaii, a location that allows Selleck, 38, to romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader upon its release March 18. A lethargic imitation of Raiders...
Every so often something is funny on purpose. When shooting her way out of the Afghan camp, for instance, Eve is stopped by the young prince who loves her. She levels her gun at him, but he stands firm and opens his shirt, exposing his chest as a target. All Eve can do is mutter "Men" and run off. Robert Morley as the deranged businessman Bentik also keeps the movie from taking itself too seriously, camping up his malice and insulting his manservant. And the 12-year-old in all of us giggles at serial stunts and big battles from...
Shultz, of course, might be playing his cards close to the chest for the simple reason that he has no real disagreements with the Administration's current line and thus feels no great need to speak up. Even so, both the Administration and the world ought to hear a strong, clear voice from the Secretary of State. ?By George J. Church. Reported by Johanna McGeary and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington
...week, excerpts from it had been seen by tens of millions of Americans on the nightly news shows of CBS, NBC and ABC. Andrews came up to the camera crew. They stalled him, briefly, then set the camera rolling as he struck a match and touched it to his chest, which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went out. He stumbled a few steps toward the lighter fluid, splashed more on, returned to the camera, squatted and touched another match to his left thigh. A tiny glow...
...eagerly I waited, that first week, for life--my only real one--to compose itself with the room as I have it: midnight: the mirror: the window bulged with my Dreams like firelight--like the bottomless drawer of an old chest...