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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through a deserted region in the southern Ural Mountains, he passed a road sign warning motorists not to stop for the next 20 miles and to proceed as fast as possible. A little farther on he saw why. "To the right and to the left, as far as the eye could see," he later wrote, "there was empty land. The land was dead: no villages, no towns, only chimneys of destroyed homes, no cultivated fields or pastures, no herds, no people--nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mysterious Wasteland | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...races worth more than $100 million, including at Churchill Downs on Swaps (1955), Tomy Lee ('59) and Lucky Debonair ('65). "I took my time. I felt good." Moving up surely, going around some and about others, he made his last crucial pass through a needle's eye. "I saw a little spot, and decided to take a chance on getting through, saving a bit of ground. One, two, three, boom. I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fresh Roses for Shoe | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...should Scott have bothered making Legend? Because, of all movie genres, the quest epic is the one most amenable to the artistic dictatorship of studio moviemaking. The fantasy world is not a photocopy of any world present or past; it exists only in the mind of the screenwriter, the eye of the production designer, the hands of the carpenters, the computerized Wurlitzers of the effects wizards. God is in the details, and he sits in the director's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures At an Exhibition Legend | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...They should be given to Israel. Not just Kurt Waldheim, but all who lived through that past must face up to it. As the President of West Germany said at the 40th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis: "We Germans must look truth straight in the eye--without embellishment and without distortion... There can be no reconciliation without remembrance...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Remember | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...while the seasoned Californians romped, the Crimson had to make do without two of its top players: Stacey Moran (out with a broken nose) and Lynley Ogilvie, who hurt her eye just minutes into the Stanford contest...

Author: By Mac LA Follette, | Title: Water Polo Fun, Fun, Fun at Blodgett | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

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