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...able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick to the jaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Though the lively pace of the scrimmage seems only slightly less dangerous than a regular game, helmets have been discarded, and the blush of exhilaration shows on all of their faces but glows on Gretzky's. Inoffensively, he laughs aloud at the successful plays, and drops his long jaw and howls at the blunders, drawing happy curses all around. Wimp does not fairly describe his 5-ft. 11- in., 170-lb. appearance in this bulky company, but it comes to mind. Almost every shot Gretzky takes, Officer Whitney snares in his first-baseman's mitt, an astonishment that the goalie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...AGENT of this conflict, the character of Dolson is scarcely. Credible and even less like cable; with his wide-set eyes and square jaw, lvanek makes him appear almost Wagnerian in his stupidity. Presumably it is Dolson's duty, as the young idealist, the "hotheaded seminarian," to fight ceaselessly and crudely for truth, justice and the American way-sometime after his daily ten-mile run, presumably it is our duty to be charmed by the natural simplicity of his tantrums as when he a onetime bisexual, melodramatically denounces the Monsignor as a "homophobic autocral...

Author: By Yoo-sun Lee, | Title: The Fast Track... ...and the Beaten Track | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical son, honoring his father, serving as lab assistant, aide-de-camp, courier, legal factotum, confidential secretary, bodyguard and chief military adviser. The two are closest during the French and Indian War (1754-60), when they jointly conceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Collision of Genes and Temper :A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...close to the needs of the task as anybody could have. Her hair, her glasses, her polka-dot dress were all part of an intangible and authentic star quality that transformed a little-known Congresswoman from Queens into a national celebrity. Above all, it was the set of her jaw and the firm, conclusive nod of her head following some statement or other beginning, "Frankly, lemme tell ya," that showed the strength at her core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Also Made History | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

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