Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies," as Velez says, meaning the $100,000 and Toyota MR2 she will get this week for winning the nod as 1985 Playmate of the Year. "I obviously owe a lot to my grandmother," says the dutifully unclad descendant...
...current issue of Connoisseur, shows the essential Wyeth gazing out to sea, clad in a naval jacket from the War of 1812. "I like skeletons," avers Wyeth, 67. "They're more enduring than the flesh that hangs on them." And how did Mrs. Wyeth regard her husband's nod to physical if not artistic mortality? "I just loved it," she says, adding that she recognized the subject immediately because "I just knew what his skull would look like." True love indeed is more than skin-deep...
...streak to 28, four shy of the ECAC record...Harvard (21-4-2) is not guaranteed an NCAA berth. If Cornell (18-9-2) decimates Clarkson (21-9-3) in tonight's consolation game and RPI whips Harvard, Big Red fans will argue that their team should get the nod. Cornell was 1-0-1 against Harvard and played RPI as tight as anyone in the lengue. Don't worry too much, though. The Ithacans are a very long longshot...Coach Cleary put freshness Steve Armstrong, Fusco and Ohno out in the last 54 seconds to protect the land...
...unlikely combination of circumstances has conspired to keep this curious, compelling tale from public view. History is written by the victors; the senior Franklin's autobiography gives his offspring no more than a brief nod for helping him build some frontier forts. As for William, his chance of writing his own version was severely hampered by a Revolutionary War fire that destroyed not only his furniture but all his papers. Luck was most assuredly not on this man's side...
...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...