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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Expect the unexpected," Principal Winston Davis warned the 700 students in Knoxville's Fulton High School auditorium last week. As the assembly settled into an eye-glazing film on the high school's construction, six warriors in camouflage gear suddenly mounted a platform near the stage and began firing their M-16s. The youngsters screamed and scrambled for cover. But the gunplay ended almost immediately, and Sergeant Major Bob Gregory of the Tennessee Army National Guard informed the students that the soldiers were shooting blanks. "This was just a scenario," said he. "It's not for real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Rambo Comes To High School | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...soon discovered the decided advantages of my forgetfulness. In my blurred eye, the contest surpassed basketball to become an epic struggle in dream-like quality. Two armies jousted on the court in that hazy texture so familiar from TV. dream sequences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Putty | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...approximately a quarter of an hour running time, Captain EO seems to go by in the blink of an eye. And I had an urge to see it again, to stay-put right where I was. But the usherettes usheretted my date and me outside, Michael Jackson "ooo!" -ing on the muzak overhead, and I managed to smuggle out a pair of purple wrap-around 3-D glasses. And I'm wearing 'em right...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: KID IN A CANDYSHOP: | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

Brockett and his staff are currently working onmajor robotics systems, such as "hand-eye machinesand tactile sensors," which could have a long termimpact on industrial production, Brockett said

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Reagan Wants More Funding For Harvard Robotics | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman, 62, formerly of MOMA, was scarcely a gleam in his Irish mother's eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Another Temple For Modernism The Met's 20th century wing | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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