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Word: expressionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not that it can be any consolation to her, but Decker never looked so attractively human. Her running expression is either vinegary or no expression at all, and there has always been an edge to her that seemed chilling. Trying to leave the field under her own power, crying as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: What It Was About | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

There are unseen fouls below the surface, elbows and shoulders are nearly lethal, and the pace is exhausting. Anguish seemed to be the prevalent expression at Malibu's Pepperdine University pool. But in the beginning the look of the powerful U.S. team was one big smile. The speedy squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A SPRAY OF OTHER EVENTS | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Gross, never mind upstart antipodeans, was the dominant swimmer of the meet. He is a very tall, haunted-looking fellow whose nickname is the Albatross, and he soared above everyone else on air currents only he was able to find. He is 6 ft. 7½ in. tall and so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Tidal Wave off Winners | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

I fit the prototype of the neoliberal as you have described him. But I am caught in a philosophical and political vacuum somewhere between Reagan's saber rattling and Walter Mondale's giveaway plans. In 1980 my views found expression in John Anderson. This year I may not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1984 | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

For Mexico City, whatever its similarities to other great cities, is also uniquely itself, a special expression of its people and its traditions. "In the valley of Mexico [City] man feels himself suspended between heaven and earth, and he oscillates between contrary powers and forces," the poet Octavio Paz wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pround Capital's Distress | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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