Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandmothers and university presidents. Flanked by his two highly paid consultants--Elliot Ness and Wyatt Earp--Marshall Jewett was going over the various proposals to bring the University's nogoodnicks to their knees. Bok loomed over Jewett's shoulder, showing inordinate interest in the plans of his two-fisted, iron-bellied lieutenant...
There he goes again, his heart talking, way out in front of his mind, tugging at the world's iron realities to see if they might yield to a little soft yearning. Some of that happened in the Reykjavik meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and it has created a continuing frenzy in Washington, a city that admires ornate theories and prolonged process and is frightened by blurted hope...
...farmers were obliged to take in boarders. Soon the old houses became inns, sometimes with names that reflected a yearning for assimilation. The splendiferous Nevele is eleven spelled backward, in honor of a group of local visitors. Ratner's place had large Rs in the wrought-iron fencing. The owner called it the Raleigh...
...rebellious way, Schwarzenegger had begun his motion-picture career with a retrospective documentary. Those millions who saw Pumping Iron did not easily forget the images of men so surrealistically proportioned they could not reach into their own pockets. The Body, as Arnold was then known, launched himself on a quest for movie stardom, not to rest until the entire world can spell his name with only moderate effort...
...Polaroid SX-70 and then with various popular automatic 35- mm cameras. He would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees or a green spindly iron chair with pigeons in ) the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris -- and shoot away: click-zip, left-right, up- down, frame after frame, more like a hen pecking than a formal photographer composing, an accumulation of nervous little details, splinters and shards. He would deal out the images, dozens or hundreds of them...