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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you give a legislature the eye of the needle, they'll drive an 18-wheeler through it," du Pont said, adding that he thought Congress would pass amassive tax increase...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Du Pont Downplays Deficits | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...detente, it was meager fare compared with the highly seasoned feast the Chinese have come to enjoy. Sidewalk bookstalls in provincial Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME TO JOIN THE PARTY. No one interprets "party" as meaning the Communist variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism Two Crossroads of Reform | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...make it difficult for raiders to know what to bid for a company. Although Minneapolis-based Raider Irwin Jacobs has been boosting his stake in Greyhound and IC Industries since the crash, he is wary of making any big moves. Says he: "You don't do business in the eye of a hurricane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Raiders Retreat - for Now | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...British Raj, but the performance I saw, he destroyed the genteel atmosphere with an ad-libbed "Oh shit!" Alexander and Shapiro are a bit bland, though they are probably supposed to be. Constantine Contes, as Jack's manservant, bears the indignities and follies of his employer with wonderful heavenward eye-rolls...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Farce Side | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...long afterward, the vogue for graffiti would release floods of glitzy dreck that shared the same eye-grabbing fervor. Indeed, both were grounded in the same area, a sense of common life, but only Stella was able to make it work aesthetically. Those who think abstract art should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Grand Maximalist | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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