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Word: chinless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present, enabling museum officials to fall, Bernini-wise, into swooning postures of gratification, one eye on the Princess of Wales and the other fixed on the box office. In short, it might not be unlike "The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...course I'd go," says Shermie, 20-year-old who works in his father's package store in town. A chinless 19-year-old, clutching the arm of her middle-aged boyfriend who had both legs blown off in Korea, says, "I'd just get pregnant." The boyfriend looks at her coolly and nods to his wooden legs. "I would if I could," he says...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Primary Indifference in New Hampshire | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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