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Word: lookers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevermore let it be said that Christie Brinkley is only a looker. In National Lampoon's Vacation, the reigning supermodel walks, talks and gives at least a passing impersonation of an ingenue. Brinkley, 27, makes her film debut in a little slip of a cinema, due out next spring, that follows the misadventures of an American family on a cross-country trip from Chicago to a giant theme park in California called Walley World. Brinkley plays a blond in a red Ferrari who continually pops up along the route. The part is undoubtedly one that Meryl Streep would pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 23, 1982 | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...Bennett got into an "I quit" - "You're fired" imbroglio that had her out of Dreamgirls until the pair made up. Near the end of Act I, Effie's lover (Ben Harney), who is the cynical manager of the trio, replaces her with a slim looker who possesses the svelte image he feels that the Dreams need to captivate white audiences. He has also taken a new bedmate. Partly in lamentation, partly as anathema, Holliday sings And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going. In her roiling heartbroken fury, she makes it a roof raiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sorcerer of Shubert Alley | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...have been cast in a sequel to the $181 million blockbuster musical Grease. With familiar Tinseltown inventiveness, the new film has been titled Grease 2. More than 500 actors competed for the leads. "There were so many talented people that it became just looks and chemistry," concedes Pfeiffer, a looker. Caulfield, an Englishman who is married to Actress Juliet Mills, 40, feels the musical "will be as good as if not better than the original." Says he, in the parlance of Grease's Rydell High School: "It's a really neat story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...SQUAD OF eight Angels marched out of the Red Line car in the Harvard Square station. The leader blew his whistle and they lined up in four rows of two. With their conception of military precision, they marched out of the station and into the street. One on-looker commented, "I like the idea, but the para-military thing scares...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Guarding Against the Angels | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

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