Word: puff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...
...these axioms have suddenly vanished in a puff of Road Runner smoke. Hollywood is in the midst of an animation boom. Bochco's series, five years after he suggested it, is being developed by ABC for 1991. At least three other animated shows are in the works for prime time, each hoping to duplicate the success of the Fox network's surprise hit The Simpsons. In theaters, the big box-office numbers rolled up by such films as The Little Mermaid and Who Framed Roger Rabbit have inspired a burst of activity. This summer has already seen a movie version...
...creation as mysterious in its genesis as in its impact. She was born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family, and at first she gave little hint of her unique hold on the camera. In early publicity films she giggles and models dresses or gorges on a cream puff. There is no beauty here, no acting ability. What could Mauritz Stiller, the pioneer Swedish director, have seen in this plump teenager? Maybe the future of movies. He changed her name to Garbo, cast her as the young female lead in his The Story of Gosta Berling (1924), then brought...
...lack of proficiency at powder puff politics left my brother and me in constant retreat. We were even desperate enough to try to talk to the correspondents covering the event, a step that the experienced wives were never forced to take. But the society reporter would not talk...
...faults, the SONG Manifesto is a eye-opening document. And before SONG's celebrity status disappears in a puff of chalk smoke, they may just succeed in bringing American antiintellectualism down a notch...