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Word: nosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic gown also see that men leave their wives, boys forsake girls, fathers daughters, daughters husbands, families leave German Shepherds for dead on garbage heaps, the background turns Tulsa and Ada black and stormy with rushing gusts of leaves and swarms of swallows and locusts perch on your nose. Through magic arts we absorb the unfair burdens of our lovers' dreams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

Kaplan maintains that stage fright derives from "all levels of psychosexual development." He points to the anxious adult's tendency to touch his nose or mouth or chin, acts rooted in the infant's use of its own hand as a source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Omygod | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Replaced Navels. Very popular in Rio is the Pitanguy nose (cute, petite and slightly upturned) and Sophia Loren eyes (almond shaped). The latest rage is carving clefts into chins or, for those whose chins are already cleft, smoothing out the cleft. Much of Pitanguy's time is spent sculpting bustlines into more sedate proportions. "Brazil has more big breasts than anywhere else in the world," he explains. Whether the breasts are expanded or contracted, however, they remain functional after Pitanguy's alterations: milk flow is unimpaired, and nipples are normally positioned. The doctor is also known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retreads in Rio | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...results were amazing." Yen said. "The Chinese upper face is shorter and has a flat contour, the nose is not as long and is more vertically inclined that that of the white, his teeth naturally protrude more, and the chin is naturally more backward in the face and is less distinctive." he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Claims Racial Differences Important in Orthodonic Treatment | 3/19/1970 | See Source »

...violence came from the left. Rightist terrorists have been accused of killing a congressional candidate and two of his supporters as they hung up campaign posters, and of shooting off the nose of the president of Guatemala's electoral council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: A Step to the Right | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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