Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smiling as he walked toward his black, open-top limousine, the Pontiff stopped for an instant when greeted by a young girl bearing a welcome-back bouquet. Due for a second operation by month's end, the Pontiff was nevertheless in high spirits. "You think you can now boast that you made me a new person," he reportedly told his doctors, "but I'm the same rascal I have always been." -By E. Graydon Carter
...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they...
...Pope stood immobile for an instant. Then he collapsed backward into the arms of his personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz. The Pope looked at his hands, one of which was bloodied. Bright red blood began to spurt from his abdomen onto his gleaming white cassock. Francesco Passanisi, inspector general of the Vatican police, who had been following close behind the campagnola, leaped aboard and ordered the driver to "move back and forth," presenting a blurred target for any further shots. Recalled Passanisi later: "As I was supporting the Pope, he was saying 'Thank you, thank...
...asked for comment about Rockpile's recent break-up. This self-effacing humor makes these bands sound so fresh, but also limits the market for them in this country. Where Adam and the Ants, a group that dons warpaint and drone on and on about "Ant-people" have become instant stars, the faceless three-minute ditty men, covering classic pop songs and penning their own to match, are buried forever...
...which reaches 3.8 million households in every state, consists of nonstop commercials in a talk show format. Advertisers normally buy nine minutes of air time to discuss their product or explain how it works. This week Revlon will tape its first informercial, which demonstrates how to give its Realistic Instant Styling permanents at home. Other advertisers on the show include Pillsbury, Mr. Coffee and Encyclopaedia Britannica...