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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good comic book is like all the best shots from an impossibly exciting film, arranged in a way that leads the eye from text to scene to text again. Perhaps comics are doomed forever to the same fantastic subject matter, as it is essentially an unrealistic form. Life is never as well designed as in the comics, the shadows never fall in the right place for dramatic effect, and you never have the chance to narrate your own exploits in polished prose...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...explosion released a cloud of toxic vapor that left nearly 60 base employees suffering from eye and skin irritations. The more lasting damage may be to the U.S. space program. The loss of a second Titan left the U.S. with no reliable way to launch heavy payloads into orbit. The Pentagon is already reduced to operating with only one reconnaissance satellite, rather than the two that military planners deem necessary. If that single eye in the sky should malfunction, U.S. intelligence in space would be blinded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Titanic Fizzle | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...fantastically unlovely gargoyles are the handiwork of Peter Fluck and Roger Law, who trace their roots back to the caricatures of the 18th century. For most of their careers the pair drew spiffing images of political figures for publications ranging from Britain's scurrilous Private Eye to the New York Times. These days, working in a converted banana warehouse along the London docks, the international lampooners produce what might best be described as the Muppets seen through Hogarth's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Stringing Along | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device that can swivel 360 degrees , keeps its laser eye on the target all the while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lethal Video Game | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Treated for a large bruise under her left eye and released from a local hospital, Caton identified her attacker as a tall white male with brown hair. Police have no suspects, according to The Dartmouth...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Women's Rights Protests Spark Violence | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

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