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Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teddy (Mark Driscoll) stands to inherit little but his mother's idiotic grin. His father never let him go even to the bathroom alone, but stood over him while he peed and demanded that he learn multiplication tables. Driscoll, who substituted for Thomas Derrah on opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vegetable Garden | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

...svelte young man with black curls and two-lane grin who steps out of a Mercedes into the glitz and glare of Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue, wearing a bright red leather jacket with chain-mail yoke and 27 zippers, as, trailed by mother and manager, he goes shopping for clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...heroes are unforgettable, but the young are irresistible. Bubbly, round-faced Debbie Armstrong broke into a big, can't-hold-it-back grin as the gold medal was hung around her neck. After her second run in the G.S., she had stood waiting for Christin Cooper's time to confirm her gold or push her into second. As she realized that Cooper had just failed to beat her, she turned her head away, and her marvelously readable face registered sublime relief and joy for herself, and pain and sorrow for Cooper. The two stood together, hugging and exclaiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...then proved it, Johnson was known as a good glider, excellent on straightaway courses like Sarajevo's and good on soft snow. The Austrians prefer hard-packed, twisty plunges that test turning ability. Fair enough, except that whenever Johnson met them in the Olympic village he would grin and say, "Hi, guys, it's still snowing up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...even money on a boy and 50 to 1 against twins. In their first public appearance after the Buckingham Palace announcement, Diana joined Prince Charles in a visit to a Jaguar factory. Said Charles to an assembly-line worker: "Your production is going well." Replied the worker with a grin, "Your production line is going well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 27, 1984 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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