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Word: anyways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, anyway. Since election day, Ray's popularity has dropped sharply. NIX ON DIXY bumper stickers are starting to appear, and critics are complaining about "Raydiation." Her decline in esteem is due in part to the fact that Ray has turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixy Rocks the Northwest | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...photographer's edge of documentary truth. It is unlikely that his images will save a single elephant. In a preface to his book The End of the Game (Doubleday; $9.95), whose new edition accompanies the show, Beard argues that the wild Africa of the 19th century is finished anyway, and is already beyond the ministrations of game policy: "It is too late to undo what has been done ... To understand this is to begin to realize that we have conquered nothing at all." To the wild's disappearance, Beard's photos append a haunting requiescat. pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Epitaph on Film | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Munro had been scheduled to leave the country by mid-January anyway; his replacement, former Drama Critic John Fraser, has already left for Peking. The Chinese clearly meant the expulsion as a warning to the 38 other foreign journalists there. Says Munro: "This raises a very serious question about whether reporters in China can write professionally, accurately and fully about this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Munro's Fate | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Business Administration. Old Santa, realizing that things had gotten out of hand, railed once again against the changes, and filed suit in Hoozie court, claiming that he still held certain key patent rights to aerial reindeer sleighs. But The Santa Corporation retained elves who specialized in festive law, and anyway, elf-scientists working at the corporation's North Pole South Building in one of the land's commercial centers had already advanced mystical sleigh technology beyond the rudimentary level old Claus had once achieved. In a last-ditch effort, wealthy holiday preservationists organized a Jolly Old Elf Legal Fund...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...ways of gift-making. Many a Ph.D. in Gift Wrap or Ribbon Tie owed his education to the corporation. These indebted techno-elves devised new gifts for the corporation to make to keep its volume of business high. They developed useless innovations that nobody needed but hordes wanted anyway. They came out with see-through lighters, scented candles, day-glo animal posters, holly-and-ivy neckties and cartons and cartons more...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

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