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NIXON: I'm afraid he'll catch me picking my nose. You wouldn't print that would you, though, Ollie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banter Before the End | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Besides the clerkships in medicine and surgery, third-year students must now take one-month terms in neurology, obstetrics and gynccology, pediatrics, psychology, and radiology, and two weeks each in orthopedics, dermatology, opthamology, and ear, nose and throat...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: The Medical School: An Increase in Clinical Training | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...upon layer. Each layer represents a muscle responsible for a body movement or facial expression, and each is connected to a mechanical control or electronic servomechanism. At his most complicated, with Rambaldi and up to ten assistants pulling his levers, E.T. can execute 150 separate motions, including wrinkling his nose, furrowing his brow and delicately crooking his long fingers. It was not feasible to cram all the necessary machinery into one model, so Rambaldi built three: one with mechanical controls, Rambaldi holds an early model of E.T.'s skull mostly for large body movements operated with cables from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creating a Creature | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...this week, Hope laced up a pair of oversize Everlasts and traded light punches and patter with the fighters. He remembered to keep his guard up from youthful days when he boxed under the name Packy East. Says he: "You don't think I was born with this nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Muslim fanatics knocked its nose off, Greeks scrawled graffiti on its paws and Mamluk soldiers used its face as a rifle target. But the saddest indignity suffered over the centuries by Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza has stemmed from erosion, seemingly caused by a single enemy-the relentless desert wind. At the present rate of decay, experts say, the 64-foot-high figure could be reduced to a mound of dust in five to ten centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Sphinx | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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