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Word: beare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent aspects, works because few of us can tolerate lives in which nothing ever happens. At least SOMETHING happens in a soap opera. The characters in Bonjour La, Bonjour sit isolated in chairs, hardly able to interact physically, hardly able to look at each other, almost totally unable to bear looking at themselves. Their lives would echo with emptiness were it not for their soap opera--their dramatic collapses that always seem to be in process but never reach...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: A Family Affair | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...says owner Maximillian Bucks (pun), the show needs $1 million or the big top will flop. To raise the money, Bucks calls upon Natalie Yellowbud, tightropist, singer and airhead extraordinaire, to star in an extravaganza in honor of President Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile, Walter Wall (pun), decides he can't bear life at the stockmarket any longer. After embezzling $1 million, the stockbroker splits (pun) with his secretary and runs off to save the circus. Back at the top, Maureen Bad--"the second thinnest woman in the world" (recurring joke)--schemes and connives to burst Natalie's balloon and steal...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: This Way to the Egress | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...formal dispute originated when the Association for Student Activities (ASA) at MIT asked the Provost, Walter Rosenblith, to revoke permission for the event because some of the advertising for the event failed to bear the logo of "MIT Seekers'," the official sponsors. The posters bore only the imprint of "Jews for Jesus," a movement not recognized at MIT, according to Louis Menard, special assistant to the Provost, who cited both technical and moral grounds for cancelling the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Bars 'Jews for Jesus' Ceremony | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Nozick said Harvard is a "universalist institution," employing Jewish professors who want to make a contribution to Western intellectual culture. He said some professors formerly tried to conceal their Jewish origins, but "Jewish motivation would begin to bear on their work...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Nozick, Walzer Predict Jews Will Focus on Jewish Issues | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

When supplies fall short of demand, even by a small amount, the number of deals is multiplied and the spot price spurts to whatever the market will bear. The official OPEC price, under which most oil is traded on short-term contracts, is now $13.34 per bbl. But last week some desperate, we'll-pay-anything customers took spot shipments of oil at $28 per bbl. Meanwhile, a number of sellers have been asking, but not necessarily receiving, as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Hustling Price Gougers | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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