Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience, for example, is under 25-but statistics often tell less about a phenomenon than simple observation. Check out one of the year's biggest hit movies: Flashdance has the shameless energy of a prototypical rock video. Look at how the kids are dressing: off the shoulder, like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, on the razzle, like Michael Jackson in Beat It, or like Boy George in extremis. Students at Holy Rosary Academy in San Bernardino, Calif., are by no means atypical. They learn the latest by watching groups on videos doing dances like the Centipede and Popping...
...When a quarterback has been around," says Plunkett, "booed, cheered and benched, he can feel good. He has lasted. Because every lasting quarterback experiences all of that in some order." Plunkett was benched for a while again this season (in favor of Marc Wilson, who promptly broke his shoulder). One criticism of Plunkett is that he finds risky passes irresistible. "A long pass is a beautiful thing to watch," he agrees...
Cimino suffered a cardiac arrest when a goal post tom down by exuberant fans after the game struck her on the head. She is still paralyzed on her left side and right shoulder as well as having suffered damage to the facial nerves that focus eyesight, but her condition is "improving daily," Anthony said...
...never saw a puck move so slowly," Bishop said. "I got the pass and just hammered it. It hit her [Tate's] shoulder, the post and landed on the goal line. Then it dribbled...
...English language's most precise prose craftsmen, and assessing such a literary icon would give any writer pause. Gray, who taught English literature for seven years at Princeton, is no exception. Says he: "I sometimes felt as though his ghost were looking over my shoulder, judging every word that came out of my typewriter...