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Word: visor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attend eight hours of driving instruction in lieu of court. At the newcomer's school in the San Fernando Valley, an actor named Dick Corbin provided diverting impersonations of a woman driver on the freeway talking on the car phone, eating lunch and doing her lashes in the visor mirror all at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...mail came the year's most original movie tie-in: a red plastic visor with a 4-in. protruding, well, sort of asparagus stalk. "Fun Facts and Myths About the Pineal Gland (The Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloody Good From Beyond | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Cooper helmets that the Crimson has this year are fitted with a clear plastic visor and not a metal cage because of a new rule that allows the plastic facemasks...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Chalmers In, Bourbeau Out... Probably | 1/25/1985 | See Source »

...been halted on three Pontiac models produced solely in Canada: the 6000, Grand Prix and Bonneville. GM concedes that Canadian-made parts are already in short supply at nine U.S. assembly plants, and shutdowns in those operations could come as early as this week. For want of a sun visor, a whole car can be lost, and the strike may soon begin costing GM $30 million a week. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Windsor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Skirmish | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Missing the Punch Line | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

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