Word: pert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there's the cheerleaders--the disgusting human pyramids they form, piling on top of one another in their scanty uniforms, hands slipping and grasping around one another's pert young breasts-rah-rah, indeed...
...well- considered if clumsily executed effort to evoke the pop-culture context of her times and a brief, provocative assessment of her talents. Parker was, after all, the one person George Bernard Shaw asked to meet at a 1926 Riviera party full of glitterati. On being introduced to the pert, poised lady, Shaw cut to her tragic core as he turned and said wonderingly to Woollcott, "I'd always thought of her as an old maid...
Peptide T, another promising substance for curbing the virus, received mixed reviews. Last December, Neuroscientist Candace Pert of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that the chemical, a synthetic portion of a protein on the AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world...
EXPECTING. Sally Field, 40, pert television actress (Gidget, The Flying Nun) and two-time Oscar-winning movie star (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart), and her husband Movie Producer Alan Greisman, 39: their first child; in December. Field has two children from a previous marriage...
...arcs of the city. The Paris that issued from his camera was not the serene city of Atget, immemorial and mostly unpeopled. Neither was it Brassai's close-in platform for the dramas of the demimonde. Kertesz's Paris was like the woman in his picture Satiric Dancer: pert, ironic and caught at a fresh tilt...