Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics, however, understood his idiom perfectly. "Aïda all' Americana" (Aïda American style), said La Notte, "everything bigger and better than anybody else's." Only the singers noticed that the reviews barely mentioned them at all. "I looked like my grandmother in that ancient costume," said Tenor Bergonzi, "but I don't mind if the directors get the glory today. Opera cannot go on without singers, but it can manage quite well without directors...
...average, the big jets were only 45% full. Mostly mired in huge deficits, the European airlines see higher fares as the most expedient way out of their financial difficulties. Pan Am and TWA have been making good profits on the North Atlantic run, though steadily losing a bigger share of the market to foreign carriers. They argue that lower fares are needed to attract more passengers to Europe and help to fill up empty seats...
...Steel is promoting tin-plate food cans that, with a handle added, also serve as cooking pots. The aluminum industry is trying to win a bigger share of the 9.5 billion-can beer market (20% of all cans made in the U.S.) with tab tops and all-aluminum cans; it is also putting out orange juice containers with tab tops. Pushing both paper and plastic, Container Corp. is marketing a handy "bag-in-a-box," a six-quart or ten-quart polyethylene sack of milk inside a cardboard box, which sits in home refrigerators and dispenses milk through a plastic...
...closest race of the day, the Crimson JV's outlasted an all-senior Rutgers boat to win by half a length in 9:04. But the margin of victory was much bigger when the third varsity and second freshman opened the regatta with victories earlier in the afternoon...
...feed his tapeworm, Capannelle long ago was driven to a career of crime. In Big Deal on Madonna Street, he became a notorious icebox robber. In Fiasco, a mildly amusing sequel to that uproarious comedy of criminal errors, the tapeworm is bigger than ever, and poor Capannelle has been forced to seek state support for a dependent he cannot declare. According to the script, he frequently strolls into a fancy restaurant, gums his way through an eight-course dinner, tsks at the check, turns out his pockets, toddles off to prison and a month of free meals...