Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Phillips, 8, did a game job of managing both his troops and the bride's train, but the show stealer was Prince William, 4. During the 45-minute ceremony, he played on the cord of his hat like a fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted by baleful stares from his mother and grandmother, he pulled out his miniature ceremonial dagger and began poking holes in the dress of Diana's niece Laura Fellowes, 6. When his victim wagged a finger of rebuke, the second in line...
Given such a plot, Heartburn would just be another one of a myriad of movies on failed marriage without such stellar actors. But Streep, with minimal help from Nicholson, makes it much more. With her hair dyed an unbecoming mousy brown and her nose more pronounced than her cheekbones, Streep is far from beautiful, but she is wonderful. She barely looks at the camera, focusing on what is real in Rachel's life, her children, her husband, her friends. Every gesture she makes seems unconscious and unplanned. When she feeds her child, spooning food out with one hand and absentmindedly...
...wing at the front of the fuselage that is his trademark. Reason: If a plane flies too slowly, its wings lose lift, causing it to stall and perhaps crash. But the canard is tilted more steeply than the main wing, so it loses lift first. When that happens, the nose drops, and the resulting minidive immediately speeds the plane up, thus providing extra lift. For increased strength, both canard and main wing are attached to the fuselage and outriggers...
...another era, the selling wave would have signaled a stock-market catastrophe. But, surprisingly, there was nothing akin to a major panic on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week, even as the four-year-old bull market took a sudden nose dive and the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks suffered its largest single-day decline in history. Only six days after breaking through the 1900 level for the first time ever, the Dow plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl...
...lovely the going will be in the new plane for the 70 passengers and 23 crew. The President and his wife will be tucked up in a spacious bedroom in the nose, complete with vanity, closets, lavatory and shower-tub. There will be a commodious presidential office, conference room, staff lounge, working stations with computers, guest area and a ward for the media, with telex terminals, in the tail. A tiny hospital will be wedged in and maybe even a meeting room for the First Lady. Upstairs will be communications gear and crew quarters...