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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with some sort of coherent overview--even if it's a warped overview, even if he is creating in a desperate attempt to stave off despair or insanity. Silly thought: When Bob Fosse filmed Joe Gideon filming himself in a hospital bed, did he glance uneasily over his own shoulder...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Gideon's Babble | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Hilaire held the first slot for much of the race, with Beckford on her shoulder and the Crimson's Kristen Linsley just behind. With less than a quarter mile to go, Beckford pushed by St. Hilaire and held the lead to the finish...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Men at Heps; Women at N.E.'s | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Austrians had planned to race a four-man downhill team of Peter Wirnsberger, Werner Grissmann, Haiti Weirather and Josef Walcher, the 1978 downhill world champion. The team's alternate, Leonhard Stock, a long-nosed and wiry clerk from Austria's lovely Ziller Valley, had severely injured his shoulder in December while training for the World Cup, and went to Lake Placid as a substitute. But in practice runs at Whiteface, Stock clocked the best time for all racers on the first day, then repeated the feat the second day. Team officials met and settled upon a fratricidal little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Only the Lake Was Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Stark naked, he was striding through the cordite stench with his head held high and his arms swinging. His body shone white in the brilliant light of the flare, except for what appeared to be a glistening crimson sash that ran from one shoulder down one thigh and dripped from his lifted foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...horror sound as if from some echo chamber in hell. The fates are inexorable: the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra are eventually hurled onto the stage like the carcasses of animals, and Clytemnestra emerges spattered with blood. As she drapes Cassandra's arm over Agamemnon's shoulder, one wonders whether she murdered him for sacrificing their daughter or for bringing his concubine home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Olympus on the Thames | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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