Word: shave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...
...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
...always, Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither. It brandishes the New York look, where every man needs a shave, and every woman a Porcelana rubdown. The Satan's Alley production numbers, full of grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself...
...tries to muffle the sound of Alka-Seltzer s fizzing. The show was a form of recall for the audience ("Hey, l remember that one!"), not only of the commercials but of performers who appeared in them 1 prior to becoming stars. A scrawny Sylvester Stallone hawked Rapid Shave; John Travolta sang in the shower for Safeguard; and a caLlow but ingratiating Dustin Hoffman crawled in and out of a Volkswagen, registering surprise at finding no engine under the hood. After an hour of this-interrupted of course by more commercials-viewers may have felt rather Like...
...government has forced civil servants to wear ties and shave off beards to give an appearance of greater discipline. It has urged women to wear long-sleeved dresses instead of jeans, and to use less perfume and makeup. Many Turks are irritated even by seemingly reasonable decisions, such as increased enforcement of the country's generally ignored traffic laws. Says an Istanbul journalist: "We are not a nation of 45 million small soldiers as Evren wants. We are civilians...