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Word: baddings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some recent films have been winners only briefly. Thanks to a new practice of opening movies in as many as 1,000 theaters at once, the money can come in before the bad word gets out. The Cheap Detective, for example, opened in 652 theaters in June and made $30 million before dropping off sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood's Hottest Summer | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Kill the messenger" is what the surly viewer thinks after being subjected to this latest and surely last edition of Bad News. Though what this means is unclear: Kill Tony Curtis, the wretched main character? Kill John Berry, the chartless director? Kill the theater projectionist? A few years ago, there was a cheerful film called The Bad News Bears, about an endearingly inept kiddy baseball team. It starred the endearingly ept child star Tatum O'Neal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...following? "Disfellowshiped" from the Worldwide Church of God by his father, Herbert Armstrong, 86, Garner Ted, 48, has organized his own Church of God International. At his first sermon in Tyler, Texas, he was all Christian charity and humility to his 200 listeners: "I don't have a bad attitude toward my father any more at all. I realize that he's doing what he feels he has to do -spank his boy. And I want to take every punishment that I need to and God wants me to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 21, 1978 | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...skippered a minesweeper. For his most recent aquatic adventure, Charles, 29, tried wind surfing off the chilly Isle of Wight. Barefooted, he tried to balance on a sailing surfboard but landed again and again in the drink. What upset the royal balance? Harrumphed a British surfing expert: "On a bad day even the Prince of England doesn't stand a chance in hell of staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 21, 1978 | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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