Word: eyelids
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...seeing its cosmetics sales soar last year by 31.5%, the Wangfujing Department Store, Peking's largest, carries more than 300 kinds of makeup; during a recent sale, Peking's No. 7 Clothing Factory sold off all its Western suits in three hours. Few people batted a mascaraed or folded eyelid last month when the China Silk Fashion Color Association announced its forecast in seasoned Parisian tones: "Sprightly beach colors and bronzes of primitive simplicity will be popular in China this spring and summer, with cheerful pastels taking over in the autumn and winter...
...first meet, though, came in the 167-lb, clash between WPI's Paul Wyman and Harvard freshman Kevin McGinty. Fifty seconds into that match--which marked the overall contest's midway mark--Wyman sent McGinty to the side of the mat with blood running from a cut eyelid. Harvard was forced to take notice--Worcester meant business...
...surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
...Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...
...Grange, Ga., slumped behind the steering wheel of her family's Oldsmobile. The car had smashed into a small tree, and at first it appeared that she, and the nine-month fetus she was carrying, had died in an auto accident. X rays revealed, however, that her right eyelid had been closed over a bullet hole made by a .32-cal. slug as it was fired into her brain. Investigators in La Grange then built a case of murder-for-hire against her husband Larry, his girlfriend Denise Lambert and three local hoods enlisted with the alleged help...