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Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavily into anecdotes"). They loved it. Then Speakes invited them to brief the press once again. To a man, they showed their old skills in evasion and diversion. Asked if he had ever had to lie, Ron Ziegler, who was secretary for Richard Nixon, answered with an appropriate grin, "Never knowingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Hardy Band of Brothers | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel, but he can still grin at the bared fangs of his own beasts. He has not become a beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...players grin eerily out into space. Sometimes they beat the walls with sticks. Sometimes, they pick a victim and surround him, chanting. When they get really upset, they take off their clothes. And as punked-out zombies scream from the stage, alternately mocking and seducing the audience, our exclusion becomes part of the thrill...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Bowie Worship | 4/23/1982 | See Source »

...Dede Schmeiner) and Nanthias (David de Berker) as the god and her servant, each display distinctive brands of comedy. Schmeiner makes her Dionysus an impish figure, a lusty Peter Pan, while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their jokes and jibes. At times their humor is more visual than verbal. Both exhibit the gestures of competent mines, and Mary Fedor's choreography proves their agile, almost...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Frogs on Exhibit | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...their German shepherds, Bob and Stan. Dogs are a major topic of Letterman's comedy, and absence from Bob and Stan may help drive Letterman and Late Night to California. For now, though, there is plenty to smile about-and Letterman does, with his patented platypus grin. "I just want to make the show as playful as possible," he says. And why not? Hey folks, it's only Network Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Fernwood 4-Real | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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