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Word: undershirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half of Director John McTiernan's movie, Willis wears an undershirt. In the second half he gets rid of it. And that's pretty much it for his performance. Of course, an actor is hard pressed to create a characterization when all he has to play against is gunshots and explosions. Any actor deserves sympathy when his love interest is sequestered from him, his nemeses are without human interest, his potential allies are all idiots, and the only sensible figure on the scene (Reginald Veljohnson) is always a walkie-talkie away. Still, Willis' presence is whiny and self-involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life in Shoot-to-Thrill? | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...Manchester, N.H., motel room one afternoon last month, Jackson rested under the sheets of a king-size bed. There was something sultan-like about him as he sat propped up, arms folded across his chest, wearing a white undershirt. His voice was the tip-off to his great pleasure as he told of large white audiences that turned out to see him around the country. 'There's a real phenomenon going on out there," Jackson said. Organizations that shunned him in 1984 now urge him to visit. The Montana state legislature gave him a standing ovation. He described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Jesse Jackson: Respect and respectability | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...every varsity basketball game, the 6-ft., 10-in. freshman center wears prescription goggles, an undershirt under his uniform, and long white boxers under his shorts...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Malcolm Hollensteiner | 2/24/1987 | See Source »

Walter Mondale looks at the clouds above Phoenix, and they are silver. The day before, he had won his big victory in Pennsylvania. Now his life is back on track. His coat off, his shirt collar open to show the kind of white undershirt that Clark Gable never would have worn, the candidate talks in the darkened cabin of his chartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tested in Heavy Combat | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...baby's undershirt from the 17th-century wardrobe of Henry Dunster. Harvard's first president: the diary of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1832; a 1936 Crimson football uniform; and a 1970 T-shirt that says "Strike because your roommate was clubbed" and 16 other calls to rebellion have all landed this winter in a single Pusey Library display case...

Author: By Mark A. Hurwitz, | Title: Three Centuries of Relics | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

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