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Word: lapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages of exposition, mined from the same instinct that made Cagney what he would never admit he was: a consummate actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was All Big - and It Worked:James Cagney: 1899-1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...usual body search, but because of the lateness of the hour was driven in an airline car rather than a bus to the plane, where she identified her luggage before boarding. She sat in seat 10-F, and during much of the flight kept the table down over her lap and listened to cassette tapes on earphones. After arriving in Athens, she spent seven hours in the transit lounge, leaving on a Middle East Airlines flight for Beirut shortly after the crippled TWA 727, on its return from Rome, made its emergency landing in Athens. On Friday, in the Lebanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Explosion on Flight 840 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Attendance at a live Saturday Night Live broadcast, as well as the private bust-out that followed, was a mandatory lap on the fast track. Some cruised through; others crashed. No one was surprised when Aykroyd glanced down at the anonymous girlfriend passed out on the floor and coolly observed, "If you can't handle MiGs, don't fly in MiG alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flying and Crashing in Mig Alley Saturday Night | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Conquest" generates a potpourri of unstable images and dumps them disinterestedly on the reader's lap. The tale "Friday Night/Saturday Morning" continues with this lack of concern, though with more violent images. It stars four men who act as a death squad randomly mutilating strangers just for the hell of it. Clinical descriptions of gunshot wounds mingle with the grief of victims' relatives...

Author: By Thomas A. Christenfeld, | Title: Ivan the Terrifying | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...meters, Sheehan ran in last place for 400 meters, and moved up to second place behind Harris at the 600-meter mark. He stayed there until the bell lap, and surged past Harris with 150 meters...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Place 5th | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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