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Word: beautyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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But soon a wind starts to whistle somewhere behind those empty spaces. The rhythmic monotony on board ship ("Will relieves Buddy, Byrum relieves Will, Wodies relieves Byrum") is broken by staccato quarrels and spurts of activity when the turtles are hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Changes | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

Jaromil is a frustrated and extremely jealous lover. With the triumph of the "revolution," (the communist takeover in 1948), he joins the Party, and exchanges private beauty, which he alone understood, for public "beauty," which can be understood by everybody. With a Party card in his pocket, he discovers a...

Author: By Jacques D. Rupnik, | Title: The Politics of Culture in Czechoslovakia | 5/20/1975 | See Source »

Few pieces of legislation have started more arguments than the various bills Congress has considered to regulate strip mining of coal-a method that accounts for more than half the 600 million tons of coal produced annually in the U.S. Environmental groups, ranchers and farmers favor such a law; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Curbing the Strippers | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Unfortunately, The Towering Inferno is not content to think of itself as a combination of simple moralism, abstract beauty and adventure. Instead, it tries to be a public service film, a sort of Unsafe At An, Height. The fire chief leaves us with the impression that any building higher than...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

You have to ignore lines like that if you're going to enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

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