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Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous Hitchcock twist endings sometimes fall flat in 1985. But when they ) work, they leave the viewer with a unique frisson: a grin accompanied by a sinking feeling in the stomach. In the best of the season's segments to date, Season Hubley played a convicted murderer who attempts a prison escape by hiding in a coffin about to be buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Out of the Series Straitjacket | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...Some women find bald men attractive," an older, skin-topped gentleman said with a lascivious grin after I had breathlessly told him of my discovery...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: A Touch of Chrome | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...Some?" I thought. "Three? Four?" And worse, I wondered, "Will I someday grin like...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: A Touch of Chrome | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...doesn't matter whether the Celtics or the Blazers win. Bill Walton will still love every minute he's on the court. He'll break out in a mammouth grin every time Larry Bird completes an impossible pass or nails a 25-ft. jumper or each time Dennis Johnson makes a tenacious defensive play...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Bill Walton: Always A Winner | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

Even those in the upper reaches of the Stadium could see the grin beneath Wilkinson's facemask as he cradled the pigskin at the Penn...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Brent Wilkinson | 11/20/1985 | See Source »

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