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Word: aficionados (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer an alternative to the top 40," says rock programming director Rob Falk '79. Clad in a black leather jacket and omnipresent t-shirt, Falk is a self-confessed punk rock aficionado. "You're not going to hear The Shirts on just any station," he insists...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: On the Air | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...piano aficionado connected with the International Piano Archives of the University of Maryland happened to pass by the church with a cassette recorder just before the recital. He went in, heard the beginnings of the astonishing performance-the sort of huge sound that Anton Rubinstein reputedly possessed -and taped it. The discovery was akin to some great archaeological find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nine Wives and 700 Works Later | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...nature, a greyhound aficionado, and had it not been for reading period I might never have ridden the blue line ten stops out to Wonderland last Friday night. The search for heady adventure had seized me. Saying "damn" to my 600-page portable Veblen, I took off for the tracks in fine, Kerouac fashion. I even managed to talk this friend of mine into coming, a guy who had an exam on Marx the next morning...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...somewhat astonished to find that the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary was floccinaucinihilipilification [March 13]. Having long been an aficionado of language oddities, I had thought the longest word to be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a disease of miners caused by inhaling silicate dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...passion for bubble gum and baseball, baseball card collecting has come of age. Of the more than 100,000 baseball card collectors in the U.S. today, some make as much as $20,000 a year dealing their wares. At the dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Baseball Card Investors | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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