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Word: fogging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as it was funny." But tasteless is not really in the vocabulary of a gross-out scriptwriter. Some movie people shiver when they think of great film scenes: Gloria Swanson descending the stairs at the end of Sunset Boulevard, or Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains walking into the fog at the conclusion of Casablanca. Gross-out writers receive a similar thrill when they remember John Belushi filling his mouth with mashed potatoes in Animal House--and then popping his cheeks and spewing out the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Animal House BEGAT . . . | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Barbara Gerk, who writes a regular column on user groups for the weekly magazine InfoWorld, believes that organizations like FOG will be around for years. When a computer has been orphaned, she says, "sometimes there's nowhere else to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Generation of Orphans | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...First Osborne Group, which is still going strong, with 15,000 members, a year and a half after Osborne Computer Corp. went bankrupt. The company, back in business under new management, once had 90 people answering help calls from users. Now it routinely refers these calls to the proper FOG chapter. Admits James Schwabe, Osborne's marketing vice president: "They probably do a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Generation of Orphans | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

What seemed to be the only moment of genuine emotion came from Chernenko's widow. While cameras discreetly looked on in long focus, Anna Chernenko kissed her husband's cheek and repeatedly bowed her head against his shoulder until she had to be drawn away from the casket. Fog horns and sirens keened as the coffin was lowered into a plot on the Kremlin Wall terrace, opposite to where Brezhnev and Andropov are buried. As the national anthem sounded, the red and gold hammer-and-sickle flag above the Kremlin was hoisted back to full staff and troops marched briskly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: Ending an Era of Drift | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Although Hausano (27-4) was seeded first, he lost his third match in a tightly fought comest. The tri-captain, who according to Lee has the best chance of placing in the national tournament, then won the consolation match to take third and qualify fog the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

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