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Word: skulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing here?" I asked, a hospitable gleam lighting up my cherubic face. The Dinosaur whirled, chains clanking softly against his leathery torso. A black leather coat--imbedded with steel plates and crusted with spikes--made up his armor; a gelled crest of blonde mohawk arced across his skull, calling to mind some genetically mutated stegosaurus. The Dinosaur...

Author: By John P. Thompson, BRAIN LINT: | Title: BRAIN LINT | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...under a grove of olive trees. Moses and Olentwala joke in Ol' Maa. The visitor stretches out and makes notes: "Moses has killed six lions, more than 60 buffalo. A buffalo wounded his brother last year, and he wants to kill lots of buffalo. He points to a buff. skull on the forest floor and says he killed that one there several months ago. Cows grazing all around me now. M. shows me a 'buffalo's house' -- a hollowed out space among the olive trees where the buffalo shelter. Moses: 'We like the animals. I am very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...Some orchestral players claim they cannot hear one another adequately in performance, that the communication among them no longer has an intimate, chambermusic quality. Some listeners miss the old soul-rattling vibrations. Says Acoustician Larry King, who was not involved in the project: "Carnegie Hall doesn't shake the skull as it did before." Summing up the negative reaction, Music Critic Leighton Kerner of the Village Voice declared, "New York City now has another Avery Fisher Hall," referring to the acoustically troubled home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in The Night | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...must stop The Joke now before it's too late. I can't stand it much longer--already when the hisses are let loose I get that bad feeling that happens when you cringe your face so tightly that your skull no longer has room to house your eyes...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting debut in Betty Blue, a steamy art flick by Diva Director JeanJacques Beineix, caused a sensation in France. Dalle is not overly impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1986 | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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