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Word: facially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cruise ship in clinging jersey and a floor-length leopard-skin scarf and matching muff, she handily offends feminists, animal-rights activists and good Christians everywhere, and she wins, because shimmering, jewel-encrusted, heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality. Her wit completes her cosmic victory, particularly in her facial expression of painful, soul-wrenching yearning when gazing upon a diamond tiara, a trinket she initially attempts to wear around her neck. Discovering the item's true function, she burbles, "I always love finding new places to wear diamonds!" Movies can offer a very specific bliss, the gorgeousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blond MARILYN MONROE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Psychiatrists started to notice that the drugs brought some awful side effects--facial contortions, blurred vision--and many patients began to refuse them. But "deinstitutionalization," as the reform movement was called, was well under way. Nearly half a million patients were returned to their communities between the mid-'50s and the mid-'80s. The Federal Government never built all the centers Kennedy promised--there are just 740 today--and states didn't take up the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mental Health Reform: What It Would Really Take | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Ehud Barak's prominent facial mole will make him a popular man among caricaturists. We asked political cartoonists to name other political figures they thought were particularly enjoyable targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 60 Second Symposium | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...being promoted to superstardom mostly look Anglo, leaving the darker performers behind. "It's fascinating to me, and a little upsetting, that this is still the white face of the Caribbean," says Santiago. "I'm sure that there are equally talented and gifted artists out there whose facial features don't conform as much to the European ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin Music Pops | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...Hence Tintin's mysterious age. He's evidently not a grownup, but not quite a boy either. All the tell-tale signs of puberty, such as facial hair and acne, are strangely absent. His skin is as baby-smooth in "The Blue Lotus" (set in 1930s Shanghai) as it is in his final adventure, "Tintin and The Picaros" (set in 1970s Latin America). Forty years without a single zit or wrinkle! That's as amazing an ability as Superman's X-ray vision...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Endpaper: Tintin | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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