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Word: nose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open, t' show you my chains / 'N a spoon is up my nose." What a dummy. Dance to that refrain! "I'm a dancin...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Rumor has it Martha had to nag at George to get him to sit for the painting; she must have angered Stuart because he made Martha's nose awfully big and didn't even stick around to finish the portraits. Even so, the paintings are nice and all, but Gilbert Stuart, the artist (who is very famous) isn't even from Boston (he was born in Rhode Island, poor devil) and George came to Boston with his army only a couple of times. So does Boston really have a claim...

Author: By Amy B. Mclntosh, | Title: George and Martha -- Washington? | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...parties. But then Spielberg and his live-in companion for the past three years, Actress Amy Irving (Voices), hardly ever go out. Most of the time they stay in their house in Coldwater Canyon, and when they do eat out, they like ordinary junk food. Spielberg turns up his nose at "quality pizza," for example. "I like pizza that curls at the edge like Aladdin's shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Animal House Goes to War | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Pinocchio'!" In Brown admissions jargon, that means her "guidance counselor has checked off boxes rating her excellent for academic ability but only good or average for humor, imagination and character. On the printed recommendation form, the low checks stick out from the high ones like a long, thin nose. "A rating of average usually means the guidance counselor thinks there is something seriously wrong," explains Admissions Officer Paulo de Oliveira. Mary's interview with a Brown alumnus was also lukewarm, and worse, she has written a "jock essay," i.e., a very short one. Rogers scrawls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Choosing the Class of '83 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...cheating on her lip-reading, she uses sign language like it's her native tongue, she talks in the same eerie high-pitched grunt that deaf people use. In fact, Irving acts handicapped so well that she may have jumped from the super-natural to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat clinic. "I've gotten lots of scripts for affliction films since the word got out that I do my homework," Irving says...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: One Sings, The Other Doesn't | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

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