Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just rips it out," says Photographer Eddie Adams People will always have to hold fast to their hearts when they see, as if it were happening before them, Robert Kennedy bleeding on the floor of a hotel hallway or a spectral Neil Armstrong taking his first tentative step onto the moon...
Ever' time Dolly walks onto the set in some wild new outfit, the boys in the crew start howlin' like prairie wolves. Dolly, though, she takes it in stride. In the movie she looks down at her front porch and says, "I can't balance these things, let alone get up on my toes. If I fell down, they'd have to milk me to get me up." As for her own overripe body, Dolly repeats Joan Rivers' joke about her "Orson Welles designer jeans" and shrugs and smiles and says, "My fat never made...
...elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after her napkin. Garo Tokat loses a battle with his artichoke, which rockets off the plate and onto his lap. Tiffany Field, her ivory dress askew, is so absorbed in her food that her long blond tresses marinate in the vinaigrette...
Status in its diverse forms still exists, no doubt, and many an American is still out there grabbing after some of it. What makes the spectacle ridiculous now is that, except in rare cases, people who have latched onto some status cannot be sure of how to flash the news to the world, and people who are watching cannot be sure who is dramatizing what sort of status with what symbol. Order Gucci loafers and you only risk winding up shod the same way as the boy who delivers them. A Cadillac today signifies nothing about the owner except that...
...game's remaining time, twelve points for Harvard jumped onto the score board with Horne, Hall, Margaret Long, Wendy Joseph, and Val Jordan, each adding to Harvard's final effort. But the Catamounts were able to generate enough offense to squeak out a victory by only a one point margin...