Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowds in Prague last week could have been greeting a rock star or a movie idol. "I can see him! I can see him! He has on a hat!" cried one woman. "We're all his supporters. I was so close, I could look at him eye to eye." Swooned another: "My heart was thumping!" The object of their affection, though, was not the U2 band or Television Star Harry Hamlin. It was none other than Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was making his first official visit to Czechoslovakia...
...company's newest items really caught my eye. For only $190, I could have a ceremonial groundbreaking shovel. It doesn't look special from the picture, but I could tell it was made from the highest quality plywood and aluminum. Or I could have a ladies' walnut gavel for only $22.50, with my choice of a $10 gavel stand or a 4-inch sounding block for $24. (Men's stand and gavel cost extra...
...hours with her daughter in the neutral territory of a local youth center. The judge had shown exasperation with Whitehead's lead attorney at several points during the trial. Even so, the vehemence of his language in the ruling came as a shock to many. Perhaps with an eye to safeguarding the custody portion of his judgment from second-guessing in the appeals phase, he slashed at Whitehead's fitness as a mother, calling her "manipulative, impulsive and exploitive" as well as "untruthful" and charging that she was too possessive of her children...
...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...
...Missie also has a Holden Caulfield eye for the ridiculous: "A lot of Italian ladies came around . . . They are, apparently, knitting tiny garments for Goering's baby. Seems a bit much . . . After dinner we had a long discussion with a famous zoologist about the best way to get rid of Adolf. He said that in India natives use tigers' whiskers chopped very fine and mixed with food. The victim dies a few days later and nobody can detect the cause. But where do we find a tiger's whiskers...