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Word: alongers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black roof indicated little heat loss; light gray showed that insulation was needed. Suppliers of thermal glass and insulation materials report strong sales across the country, although high interest rates have kept down new construction. Low-interest or no-interest loans for weatherizing are sometimes available through utilities. Along with how-to-do pamphlets like In the Bank ... or Up the Chimney, the Federal Government offers two types of tax credit: up to $300 for energy-saving devices, such as insulation and storm windows, and up to $2,200 for equipment that provides renewable energy, such as windmills and solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Will worker productivity plummet along with the mercury in frosty offices? Possibly, says Dr. Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that wool hats and mufflers will soon be de rigueur in the typing pool? Or fingerless gloves? "I'll bring in a space heater before I'll wear those," grumbles a Manhattan secretary.* But she will try thermal underwear beneath her baggy jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Look Is Layered and Down Is Up | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna May Wong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...physical gag in every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along the lines of a massive Laurel and Hardy pie fight, somehow comes out both mirthless and meanspirited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...marries Jason, a magazine writer and editor, in the 1960s and spends the next five years following him to new job locations (London, San Francisco). Along the way, she falls out of love with marriage and her husband. Divorce leaves her both miserable and sitting pretty. She is courted by a famous sculptor, a gifted writer and an admiring lawyer who takes her for idyllic sails on Long Island Sound. She has an apartment with a terrace on Manhattan's East Side and a woman who comes in to tidy it up. She can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flibbertigibbet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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