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Word: alan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives," Starr says, adding that this new male is a far cry from the old John Wayne tough-guy type, who had no sympathy for women, and required complete submission, of the Marilvn Monroe variety, for anything to work out. Whether or not women would be happy with Alan Bates, who is quiet and artistic, or John Voigt, who is paralyzed from the waist down, or Philippe Noiret, who is almost senile, is another question...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: 'New Women' In Film | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...Hollywood keeps going at its present rate, rock stars may soon become the most ubiquitous movie folk heroes since cowboys had their heyday. Already this year we have seen films about the rise of '50s Deejay Alan Freed (American Hot Wax), the advent of the Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memory Lanes | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...that would only conclude the Administration's negotiations with the Russians. Carter would then have to open negotiations with the deeply suspicious U.S. Senate. According to California's Alan Cranston, the upper chamber's Democratic whip: "It's going to be a tough battle, tougher than the Panama Canal treaties. If we had to take up SALT today, it probably wouldn't make it." Cranston notes that even advocates of arms control are reserving judgment on SALT II until they see the final shape of the accord. He estimates that roughly 40 Senators favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Once More, with Feeling | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...study, written by Psychologist Alan Bell and Sociologist Martin Weinberg, finds that lesbians have fewer problems and are less sexually active than male homosexuals. At the time, three-quarters of the women were involved in relatively stable relationships; the majority had fewer than ten homosexual partners over a lifetime, and venereal disease was virtually unknown (one reported case among 293 women). Only one-half of the men were in stable relationships; the average male reported sex acts with hundreds of men, and two-thirds had developed venereal disease at least once. Forty percent of the men had had more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: A New Kinsey Report | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...Alan I. Frolich '78, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) and an organizer of the boycott, said yesterday the decline in pledges "indicates that students are committed enough to withhold what the University needs--which is money...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: College Fund Drive Raises $6.31 Million | 7/11/1978 | See Source »

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