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Word: beholding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Head is truly a sight to behold, with 100,000 spectators, more then 3000 competitors, 720 boats, 18 races and the biggest party you'll ever attend...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: What a Wonderful Weekend | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...those wise enough never to have read Love's Labour's Lost, behold Shakespeare's least complicated plot: King Ferdinand of Navarre (Thomas Derrah) has secluded himself in a private retreat, where for three years he has vowed he and his three attendants shall lead a virtuous life (sans dames). But love will find a way, this time from a visit of state by the beauteous Princess of France (Cherry Jones) and her ladies-in-waiting. Quicker than you can say "voulez-vous coucher avec moi" the king and his nobleman have discarded their celibacy like last year's underwear...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

...stand to inherit millions, the sleeping heiress who was allegedly the target of a murder attempt most foul, all set against the gilded backdrops of Newport, R.I., and Manhattan. But this time there is the promise of new and quirky characters, while the once icy defendant, lo and behold, seems to have come to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take Two: The Von Bulow trial resumes | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Ralph Waldo Emerson, upon meeting Mary Ann Evans in 1848, said she possessed "a calm, serious soul." Twenty years later a young American visitor to London encountered Mary Ann, now famous as George Eliot. "Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father. "A mingled sagacity and sweetness--a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power." Two years before her death in 1880, Ivan Turgenev raised his glass at a party in an English country house and proposed a toast to Eliot: "The greatest living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride and Power Selections From George Eliot's Letters | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Only the newest players behold him with open awe. "The first time I stood on the ice beside Marcel Dionne, I was 18. I can remember exactly how excited I was. I've seen that same look in younger eyes." For perspective, he has several devices, but his most effective helper is the small, bespectacled clubhouse boy, Joey Moss, who has Down's syndrome. "I grew up around it," Gretzky says. "My dad's sister is mentally retarded. I love Joey, I love to shake his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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