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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shouts and powder flew in every direction, in every face. My dead-eye Minnesota aim, cultivated through many years of schoolyard skirmishes, clobbered numerous California-bred friends. The practiced Yankee Yardlings had met up with the sun-belt greenhorns in a frenzied free-for-all that only Mother Nature could have provoked...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: The First Snowfall | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...window display I witnessed at the Vision House in Harvard Square last night. There are trash cans in the window and stuffed in one trash can is a woman's body with only her upturned legs visible. Hanging from her high heeled shoe is a pair of eye glass frames. I can't for the life of me see any connection between the inferred violence and eye glasses. After seeing someone raped, murdered, or mutilated and stuffed in a trash can, why would I want to buy eye glasses!? I spoke with the manager of the store who said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Our Readers | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...worth seeing. The acting is uniformly excellent, with Whoopi Goldberg a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some of the film's most engaging moments are those featuring the minor and often humorous characters that...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

Although an economics concentrator with his eye on law school, Barakett doesn't plan to let his hockey career end at Harvard...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Killer B Who's Not Afraid to Sting | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...said that in future experiments, test strips will be made to greater depths in space to include galaxies which cannot be seen by the human eye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Find Cosmic Bubbles | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

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