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Word: aire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that part won't ever make it on the air, thanks to the magic of tape editing. When the two actors, dressed in colonial costume for a sketch, made a mistake, they just started all over again...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Hope and Randall Joke at the Forum | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...large A-shaped scaffold, with straps for the prisoner's wrists attached near the top and thick padding along the crossbar to absorb the impact of the whips on their bodies. As viPs looked on, two muscular men pranced about, slashing Malacca canes through the air to limber up their muscles. They were convicts, who would be rewarded for successful floggings with extra rations. A doctor stood by, empowered to stop the beatings if a prisoner's life seemed in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Whips of God | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...more unlikely mountaineer could be imagined. Slight, sedentary, intensely fastidious, bored by hiking, Anton Webern nevertheless trudged determinedly up the alpine slopes of his native Austria. ''From time to time,'' he explained to his friend Alban Berg, ''I must breathe this air. Transparent, clear, pure-the heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Revolution in a Whisper | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Head over Heels whether this madness is a desirable condition. Di rector Joan Micklin Silver lets the action and Heard's characterization veer close to the actual, unfunny sort of in sanity. Once or twice before the happy ending, it seems that something gruesome may be in the air. The quark, or question mark, involves this dark chanciness that finally proves to have foreshadowed nothing. It is intentional, of course, but a trifle heavyhanded; the viewer wants to laugh more loudly than the director permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

While rain and mud may hold back a ground and cause fumbles, the usual fear of an offense under such conditions is interceptions. For Harvard, the ground game never got cranked up and quarterback Burke St. John was forced to go to the air...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Don't Forget Galoshes | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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