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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, many, many close-ups of the star, whose expressive range, never very wide, has now narrowed to an all-purpose mask. Stallone seems to feel that facial muscles are the only ones that do not require constant workouts. It's the same way with conversation, which he obviously worries might interrupt the awed contemplation of his beauty. A lowball estimate indicates that, not counting grunts and groans, the star collected about $500,000 per spoken sentence on this film. All this staring and gawking somewhat slows the action, which is more crudely orchestrated than in the previous Rambo adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Muscles + Money = Excess RAMBO III | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...well. By constricting blood vessels, it casts a pallor over the face and diminishes circulation in the extremities, often causing chilliness in the arms and legs. It relaxes the muscles and suppresses the appetite for carbohydrates. Since nicotine cannot be stored in the body, smokers maintain a relatively constant level in the blood by continuing to smoke. "Because you take 200 to 400 of these hits a day, there's a lot of reinforcement," says Nina Schneider, a psychopharmacologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's self-administered, and it controls mood and performance. That's what makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why It's So Hard to Quit Smoking | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...like most siblings, they are in constant contact, whether it is via telephone or if they just run into each other while biking around campus...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Double Trouble on the Court | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Humans are under constant siege by these voracious adversaries. Germs of every description strive tirelessly to invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet Union to continue on the path of disarmament to which they have committed themselves at last. I shall do my best to hasten the start of negotiations on conventional weapons in Europe. I shall remind others that though security is based on deterrence, that does not mean either constant overbidding or redundancy, and that a reduction of the arms race is the logical complement of this strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France What Victory Will Mean | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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