Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, the days of baseball's purity now are over. The allure of violent intimidation has finally caught baseball's eye. This year ushers in the era of the "beanbrawl," as Sports Illustrated has appropriately dubbed...
...Bakkers' high living had caught the eye of the IRS long before the PTL scandal finally broke. In 1981 the agency launched a two-year inquiry into the ministry. Then, in a confidential 1985 report, the taxmen recommended revocation of PTL's tax-exempt status, retroactively to 1980. Reason: the IRS believed the organization did not operate exclusively for tax-exempt purposes and that part of its income personally benefited the Bakkers and others...
...something special about her, a luminous quality to her face, a fragileness combined with astonishing vibrancy. This girl was going places." So mused a young photographer about the girl he found working in a factory near the end of World War II. Credit David Conover with an unerring eye, because his discovery was to become Marilyn Monroe. In June 1945, Conover, then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers...
Like many a mystery writer, Robert B. Parker is a former college English teacher who yearns to be taken seriously for his literary credentials while still shadowboxing within the tough-guy genre. In his two most recent novels, A Catskill Eagle and Taming a Sea-Horse, Parker's private-eye hero Spenser embarked on studiedly medieval quests to rescue damsels in distress. Some fans admired the chivalric plots and illuminated prose; others, finding these adventures merely portentous, longed for a return to the snarly, wisecracking style of Parker's earlier books and the ABC-TV series spin-off, Spenser...
...while $69 dining-room chairs were marked down to $49. The 3.5 million people in the Washington area could hardly miss the 330 radio and TV commercials touting the sale -- or the double-page ad in the Washington Post. City buses winked with the company's cryptogram: an eye and a key followed by "ah!" The hoopla brought out 10,000 shoppers on the first day of the sale...