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Word: overheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret maneuvers, you see gradually, strategically making my way towards the United States Military Academy at West Point. I am resting now in a veritable No Man's Land--a stormy sky overhead and wilderness all around...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Under the Gun | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...sequence shot as the FMLA defeated government fighters and took over the town of Perquin in July 1981. Mixed in with the war scenes is footage of children playing and running around ("last one there's a fascist!"), and a soccer game momentarily interrupted by a government helicopter passing overhead...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Filmed Struggle | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...family patriarch and founder of the Phalangist Party, had stood with his sons Bashir and Amin to begin what was to have been a weeklong ceremony of receiving well-wishers awaiting the inauguration of Bashir as Lebanon's President. Now, as the trumpets blared and Israeli jet fighters screamed overhead in tribute, the family was receiving mourners by the thousands. Among them, observed Amin, the man who aims to succeed his brother, were representatives of most of the country's factions, adversaries and even blood enemies, bound together for an hour or two in a ritual of mourning. But then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Lebanon Crisis | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin, and hundreds of souvenirs spilled from overhead baggage compartments. Passenger Carlton Maloney, 30, an audiovisual specialist at Manhattan's Pace University who was tape-recording the sound of the takeoff, cried into his microphone: "We are in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: A Grisly Triptych of Disasters | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...casting couch), her neurologist (who ladles out morphine) and a curious reporter (who cannot escape the lure of decadence), Veronika travels down Sunset Boulevard to a dead end. Fassbinder's black-and-white palette turns neon into a soft, blinking Cyclops eye, slices light into flickers with an overhead fan, dapples windows with rain stains, all to re-create the visual style in which Veronika could feel at home and alive. As she sings in a final drugged reverie that reunites the featured players of her life, "Memories are made of this." She dies, as her creator would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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