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...like to think she has it all together. She delivers comic lines in the most serious manner to enhance their humorous effect, and is always quick with a witty response. At one point Zee tells Eli, "You've got lots of energy but it all gets struck in your forehead--you think too much." And when he chastises her for her smoking, she quips, "I love to smoke...in fact, I love to want to smoke...I like craving things...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Overcooked | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...life, Andropov was a figure far removed from the world of average Soviets. The tears of distraught family members made him seem more human in death. Before the lid could be closed on Andropov's coffin, his wife bent to kiss his pale forehead. She tenderly caressed his sparse hair and then kissed him again. She had behaved at that moment of grief as any Russian woman would. For many Soviets witnessing the scene on their television screens, that moving glimpse of private pain seemed to cut through the hundreds of thousands of words that spewed forth in official obituaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko: Moving to Center Stage | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Canadian officials had a chance to size up the Kremlin's rising young star when Gorbachev led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa in May 1983. A balding man of medium height with a birthmark on his forehead that is airbrushed out of official portraits, Gorbachev exudes confidence, authority and a willingness to learn. As he traveled to Ontario and Alberta visiting large family-owned farms and agricultural processing plants, Gorbachev repeatedly asked questions about Western farming techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Standing at a Great Divide | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Gross Clinic, 1875, certainly bridges two cultural worlds. On the one hand, one can read it as a very American icon of progress; it is a fervent, secular celebration of objective scientific knowledge, with the realism of paint serving that of science. Dr. Gross, light shining from his high forehead and glittering on his bloody hand and scalpel, is a pragmatic hero, and his skill is set before us as part of his American nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manifest Destiny in Paint | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...wing bureaucrats for three years is hilarious in its proximity to reality. It's hard to tell how much talent a humorist has, though, when he chooses such an easy target. Stamaty gets his best lines without much more than quoting Presidential statements; in an address to the House. Forehead says, "The only way to get rid of our deficit is to cut taxes. Only when government has no money will it stop spending...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Tooning Out | 1/13/1984 | See Source »

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