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Word: ad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unique competence in linguistics, there are other aspects of America B.C. that raise doubts. To the layman, Fell's theories seem well-constructed and scholarly at first. But after a while a certain pattern develops. Time after time the internal consistency of his argument depends upon the acceptance of ad hoc hypotheses that strain the limits of credibility...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

Garden Shears. The robe is not a completely new motif for Dine. It goes back to 1964, when he saw an ad illustrating one in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he later remarked, "but when I saw it, it looked like me. I thought I was in it." It became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Self-Portraits in Empty Robes | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...Square Men's Bar in Inman Square buys advertising space from The Crimson. Maybe you should, too. See their ad on this page. Then go to one of the most friendly and crowded bars in Cambridge...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...think I'm going to take a few weeks off. Before my tour of New Zealand, you know. Diana Ross is at the Music Hall until the 14th of this month. At night. Nights work if you can get it. (See display ad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...gambled even more by delaying the show until the start of the so-called sweep week on Jan. 31, the triumph would have been even sweeter. During those periods, ratings services measure the audiences of local stations, and the networks often air their strongest shows then to boost affiliate ad rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Roots Grows Into a Winner | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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