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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secord had a bird's-eye view of the entire affair. As president of a company selling arms around the world, the retired two-star general provided aircraft and crews to ship weapons to Iran, accompanied former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on his secret mission to Tehran, purchased short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the contras and was in charge of coordinating munitions drops for the rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Many Talents | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Getting The Blues | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Punch Lines TRUST ME | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Together we looked down at the crowd. Someone released a bunch of brightly colored balloons, which floated amidst the cries of joy and celebration like the dream of youth. I looked Mike in the eye and raised my cup. "Sometimes, my friend," I declared, "You just have to say, 'Fuck...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: My May Day With Mikhail | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

Usually being one to defend political cartoonists from those who are inclined to take their art too seriously, I feel a bit odd writing a letter to complain about the insulting and tasteless "Boyd's Eye View" you published on April 20. But Boyd's cartoon means to be taken seriously, and the subject matter is important enough that I can't avoid feeling insulted. The cartoon shows a coat-and-tie clad college student with the label "New Conservatism" with a demonic, whip-holding shadow labeled "New Collegiate Racism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

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