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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have ideas, exactly; there's no thinking involved in my choreography. I work alone for a couple of hours every morning in the studio. I just try things out. And my eye catches something that looks interesting, and then I work on that...it's all in terms of the body, you see. I don't work through images or ideas--I work through the body...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Dance on its Own Two Feet | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...thinking especially of Orson Welles and "Citizen Kane" and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimentalist" soft spots of Rick in "Casablanca" or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in "Petrified Forest." Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swell Dames and Death Wishes | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...afraid they'd become instantly precocious, but it hasn't happened," Natalie Pihl says. "We're concerned because the kids get a lot of attention from so many people, and we're afraid they might become--spoiled," Graeme Fincke says. He and his wife are "keeping an eye on the children" to prevent that from happening...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Making a House a Home | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...author explains at the book's outset, gnomes are now nearly forgotten beings. Although a few do find their way into the public eye, like MIT's innovative linguist, Gnome Chomsky, or the tiny people who scraped together their life savings to open Gnomon Copy, or the hardy pioneers who founded Gnome, Alaska, most gnomes prefer the quiet life, in tune with Nature and all her creatures. This is why many people have never seen gnomes, and why some people go so far as to doubt the very existence of the little creatures. You might as well ask if Santa...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: To Gnome is to Love 'Em | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...Virginia Callahan. Remember Mrs. Joel's kid, Billy, from down the street? The greaser who took the piano lessons and had his shifty eye on you? Well, he just wrote a song about you. And you won't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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