Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald Ford than for Carter last November (2,330 to 2,325), but still folks could hardly have been happier to have him as a guest. Among those on hand was Author-Journalist Willie Morris, who celebrated his Yazoo roots in his autobiographical memoir, North Toward Home. His account of Carter's visit written for TIME...
Based on Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel, it gives an earnest, intelligent account of Deborah Blake, a teen-ager who returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
...Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime as Presented by Jelly Roll Morton," choreographed by Anna Sokolow, Jim--ardent, frightened, cool--partners Lorry-never anything but wacky--in a series of queerly-constructed waltzes, foxtrots, and tangos. As narrator Ed Di Lello reads Morton's account of how a dance tune became transformed in his "Tiger Rag," pianist Patricia deVore pounds out its variations in two and three time...
...help prepare air travelers for their ordeal on the ground, TIME, with the aid of correspondents around the world, has compiled the following rating guide,* taking into account such matters as accessibility and services, though not safety. Following are our assessments of the ten busiest U.S. airports (in order of busyness), four in Europe and six in the Far East...
Everyone knows the cat has a libidinous reputation. Phrases like "tomcatting around" and "cat houses" are part of the language. Few may know that cats can copulate eight times in 20 minutes, which helps to account for the 13 million kittens born in the U.S. every year. The final phase of intercourse is quite painful to the female. In the cat family, the release of the eggs for fertilization requires a triggering mechanism. The device is supplied by prickly spines that cover the penis and rake out the female on its withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows...