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Word: nosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guts of Chassler's work aren't simple or literal at all--neither formal exploration for its own sake nor defiant nose-thumbing for its. Does "romantic minimalism" make any sense of a literal approach and non-literal content? How Chassler dances is nothing except straight-forward; what she dances is everything...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lines Almost Spoken | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...went on for months, this falling asleep at four in the morning in a fiendish cloud of cigarette smoke, a rubble of beer bottles, light glaring and an Eric Ambler paperback folded across my nose. It wasn't until I'd finished gobbling the 11th or 12th Ambler goodie that I realized what had been going on. Not what was going on with the books--spy novels are easy enough to figure, God knows--but what was going on with me. I finally caught on to the twisted logic grown up between the Ambler fetish and my dropping...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: My Senior Thesis | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...varsity basketball team completed its season-long nose dive to the bottom of the Ivy League Saturday night as Brown exploded for 60 second-half points and routed the hapless Crimson...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Bruins Maul Cagers, 101-86; Crimson Finishes 8-18 Season | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...deserted stage at the other end of the room, an aloof Catherine Mackin was writing out her report for NBC with a green felt-tipped pen, before dusting her nose, brushing her hair, and readying for the call from David Brinkley...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Music Blurs the Distinction Between Victor and Vanquished | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

Trailing the visually dramatic T shirts by a nose are the Smellies shirts -scented with everything from pizza to burnt rubber. Microscopic capsules containing the odoriferous oils are embedded in the fabric; by scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The T Shirt: A Startling Evolution | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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