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Word: napping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lancôme's expensive illusion is about to take form. Isabella is not in view yet; she is taking a 20-minute, or $375, nap. But LaMicela is at work, as are a film director, a cameraman, gofers, riggers and grips, and several black-and-white cows. The reason for all of this impressive activity-the concept, as agency philosophers put it-is that Ô de Lancôme is "a Saturday-afternoon fragrance." The woman who wears it is fresh and casual, and, although breathtakingly lovely, not obviously paired with a lover. Such a wild flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...their Yard headquarters and sighed with relief. About 30 minutes later, Anderson and Neal received a call from the airport saying they were missing the Australian Secretary of Defense. After a short frantic search, they located the gentleman who bored with the press conference, had "snack off for a nap...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene, | Title: Concierge of Harvard Yard | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...Monday, Stone and his companions left San Salvador on a TACA International Airlines flight bound for Miami. During the stopover in Belize, a vacationing television reporter from Tampa, Mark Feldstein, boarded the plane. He settled into a seat in front of the Stone party and leaned back for a nap. Feldstein soon realized that the men behind him were drafting statements for Reagan and the Salvadoran President about the election announcement. At one point, one of Stone's companions noted, "That's worded for domestic political consumption." Feldstein grabbed an air-sickness bag and began to scribble down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Disquiet on the Southern Front | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

When William C. Pate '86 awoke from a reading period nap in Langdell Law Library Saturday night, he found an unexpected visitor hovering over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unexpected Visitor Surprises Law School Library Students | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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