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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questionable, however, whether the Group of Seven finance ministers will always be able to agree on mutual policies. If they do not see eye to eye, there are no penalties prescribed for nations that fail to fall in line. The U.S. contends that the frequency and publicity of the G-7 conferences will inspire the nations to adhere to their agreements. But the Reaganauts were disappointed by the summiteers' failure to set a date for talks on breaking down trade barriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Summit of Substance | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...foot-dragging litigants. But never before, to anyone's recollection, has a member of the federal bench cited the entire Roman Catholic hierarchy for contempt of court. Last week in New York City, however, Federal Judge Robert L. Carter socked the Catholic bishops of the U.S. with an eye-popping fine of $100,000 a day until they comply with a court order. The bishops' sin: refusing the judge's instructions to give suing pro-choicers internal church documents on the church's antiabortion campaign. The critical underlying issue that has dragged the bishops into court: whether the Catholic hierarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church and State | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...movies have ranged from the eminent to the eminently forgettable, her singular silhouette has budded, bloomed, overripened, then been gloriously pruned. In the past few years, after a much publicized battle with drugs and overweight, Elizabeth Taylor has re-emerged in the public eye to champion humanitarian causes, especially AIDS research. (She became an energetic supporter after the death of her friend Rock Hudson, and late last week appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing urging her former husband John Warner and other Senators to authorize $80 million in Government funds.) Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Selling Strong Emotions | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

PEOPLE: From Fat Albert to fatherhood, 70 Bill Cosby keeps his wry eye on growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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