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Word: facedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snowdon appreciates that kind of graciousness. "It's agony going on a film set the first time," he says. "You pray you are going to see somebody you know. It's exactly like going back to school for the first day." On the set of Passage he faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Meeting of Two Masters | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Gymnast Mary Lou Retton faced a similar dilemma last June when she injured her right knee during an exhibition. "I thought, 'Oh my God, it's all over for me,' " she remembers. According to her doctor, Orthopedist Richard Caspari of Richmond, a fragment of cartilage from her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Surgery Won Gold Medals | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Nixon seemed to have thoroughly destroyed himself when he flew off that morning into a self-imposed exile in Southern California. Though his resignation canceled the House Judiciary Committee's unanimous vote to impeach him, Nixon still faced a real danger of being indicted and imprisoned for obstruction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixon: Never Look Back | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

The last act, or bout, had the crowd, both knowing and neophyte, in a frenzy of excitement. West Germany's Matthias Behr faced Italy's Mauro Numa. Behr had returned to competition after a hiatus that followed a shattering 1982 fencing accident in which the broken blade of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Fencing with a Touch of Class | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Television news does not often compete with print in digging up investigative stories or in the subtler craft of discerning political and economic trends. But when it comes to covering visual events of known proportions (preferably grand), staged at announced times and places, TV can be informative, intimate and stirring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Made-for-TV Extravaganza | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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