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Word: soaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharp enough to cut through the wax and give the illusion of slicing her flesh. Again the blood came out of the scalpel and shot into the groove being created. We cut the camera once more. I spent about 90 minutes making her head bald by spreading soap across layers of hair and drying each layer until it was slick. I then removed the top half of the mortician's wax above the cut, and built up more wax along the top of her real hairline leading into the soaped-out area. I applied pink and white makeup...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...sharp enough to cut through the wax and give the illusion of slicing her flesh. Again the blood came out of the scalpel and shot into the groove being created. We cut the camera once more. I spent about 90 minutes making her head bald by spreading soap across layers of hair and drying each layer until it was slick. I then removed the top half of the mortician's wax above the cut, and built up more wax along the top of her real hairline leading into the soaped-out area. I applied pink and white makeup...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...sharp enough to cut through the wax and give the illusion of slicing her flesh. Again the blood came out of the scalpel and shot into the groove being created. We cut the camera once more. I spent about 90 minutes making her head bald by spreading soap across layers of hair and drying each layer until it was slick. I then removed the top half of the mortician's wax above the cut, and built up more wax along the top of her real hairline leading into the soaped-out area. I applied pink and white makeup...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Havana, apparently by Cuban refugees who had come to the U.S. on the recent Freedom Flotilla. First, a Key Westbound Air Florida 737 with 33 people aboard was commandeered by a Spanish-speaking man wielding a "bomb" that turned out to be a box containing a bar of soap. Next, another Air Florida 737, headed from Key West to Miami with 74 aboard, was seized by seven passengers who threatened to ignite a bottle of gasoline. Then, a National Airlines DC-10 bound for Puerto Rico was forced to Havana by two Spanish-speaking men who also threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Havana-Bound | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...Come Friday nights this fall, the country will become one huge eavesdropping family, as the denizens of Dallas provide 25 more gilded, high-gloss mirror images of domestic America. For if the show's spectacular success proves anything, it is that when the chemistry is right, oil and soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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