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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST MEANINGFUL QUESTION Brustein's detractors have thrown at me, and the one that forces me to expose a basic faith in the man's nature, a faith which some people consider unfounded or even a little stupid, goes like this: Why Harvard? Why is this big guy fooling around with undergraduates when his true concerns are so much loftier? We all know why he wants to come to the Loeb: a good location in a big Eastern city, with a built-in audience of "intellectuals" hungering for innovative theater: superior facilities; more sources of potentially big money, which apart...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Beautiful Music Together | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...readers got to see was the author himself, pounding away at a life and times that had already become commonplaces. And so Updike did what he could, which was to get out, or at least to take his imagination and will himself out, and over into the land of big unwashed horizons. Africa...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...have British accents. Upstairs, Downstairs has already returned, to loud hosannas. I, Claudius will be back in June, and The Duchess of Duke Street will carry on with new adventures next fall. This week what could be called the Mobil Network-a grouping of stations put together by the big oil company-will launch one of the most engrossing series of all, a 13-part program based on the life of Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Princely Palaces, Animal Houses | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...bought the series from Britain's ITC Entertainment in 1974, at a cost of $2.5 million. But it stayed in the vaults for almost four years while programming executives came and went, uncertain what to do with such a big and elegantly wrapped package. Eventually the network decided, remarkably enough, that it was not sufficiently American and sold it for $1.8 million to Mobil, which will now show it on 49 stations throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Princely Palaces, Animal Houses | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very end of the film, Chamberlain escapes from the underground city only to look up and see the big water...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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