Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radiant Molly Ringwald is not the only such coming attraction. Ally Sheedy, who plays the sulky flake to Molly's good girl in The Breakfast Club, is one of a lively and sometimes dazzling handful of others. Sheedy is 23 now, and the leggy, earnest, puppy-cute teenager of WarGames shows up less frequently in her movements than it used to. Her looks have always pivoted at an intriguing point between plain and stunning, a balance that is bad for a movie star but lucky for an actress. She has a pointy nose, a shock of reddish-brown hair...
Wong said, "I don't think it was something of my imagination, but I don't want to be known as the resident flake on campus...
...roommates certainly aren't calling her a flake...
...fewer than 100 to go. Though he was hot, Cincinnati was downright wintry. The game was delayed twice because of snow. Since the season has been extended by two playoff games this year, the snow could be coming down again before they're done. Baseball's first flake-to-flake season...
...modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice, Derain to Collioure-as a stint among the marbles of Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified...