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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Handkerchiefs. Named Best Film of 1978 by the National Society of Film Critics, this film is a big hit with the Perrier Crowd, and it's packed the Welles since the opening. Reminiscent of Cousin, Cousine in its playful attitude toward sexual improprieties, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs fails to develop its characters much behond their pretty faces. Solange, the heroine, has three lovers: two are buffoons, her husband and a stranger he recruited to cheer her up, and one, a thirteen-year-old boy, is sensitive to her need for friendship. The plot is inconsistent, the jokes are obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorilla From Another Time | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

This concert offers a rare opportunity to hear a public performance of Mingus's music by a large band. Mingus made a number of important recordings with a large ensemble in the studio, but he only rarely appeared with a big band. When he did, he made an impression; his once-infamous Town Hall Concert of 1962 is now recognized as a landmark in jazz history...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Mingus at Eight | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...powerful lobby, instigated by vice president Father Joyce of Notre Dame, may influence Congress to exempt big revenue sports such as football and basketball from the requirements, Jack P. Reardon, director of Athletics, told about 50 people at an informational meeting last night...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Title IX Embroiled in Controversy | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Califano told the eastern branch of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) that if big revenue sports do not receive an exemption, the House Appropriations Committee might act to prohibit use of HEW funds for enforcement of Title IX, Andronike Janus, assistant director of athletics, said last night...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Title IX Embroiled in Controversy | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Constance Martin '82 said, "I think I'll stick with Juicy Fruit. When I do chew bubble gum, it's Bazooka or nothing. I don't like Bubble Yum--it comes in such big chunks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrigley's Answer To Bubble-Yum: New Hubba Bubba | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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