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Word: fleshes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeat performance, but this time the Administration was more forthcoming. When Ronald Reagan walked into the press conference he called to discuss the denouement of the Achille Lauro hijacking, he was wearing a flesh- colored bandage on his nose. He opened with a jocular announcement: another cancerous growth had been removed, and "I can stand before you proudly and say my nose is clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President: Keeping His Nose Clean | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 14, 1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frantically Seeking Desperation | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Barbara Patton, a fellow this fall at the Institute of Politics, says these suburban voters picked her over the Republican opponent because she ran an "old-fashioned, flesh-on-flesh campaign...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Some Interesting Fellows | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

...shows up at Rose's wedding, the only woman wearing, Macon notices, spiked heels with ankle straps. She isn't even really pretty, her youthfulness appearing more immature than sexy. Upon his first sight of her at the Meow Bow vet clinic, Macon notes the knobby collarbones "promising unluxurious flesh...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

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