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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been pointed out by the women's liberation movement, the plain woman is continually burdened by scorn and abuse, while the even moderately attractive one is the butt of infinite routine seduction attempts. The initial pleasure of this kind of attention soon wears off when you realize that in many cases it has nothing to do with you personally; it is not your fascinating presence that has drawn the men, but rather the simple fact that you are a woman...

Author: By Sue Jhirad, | Title: Women's Liberation: Finding Our Heads | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...their particular enemies, but they are quite happy to break up a synagogue, a Chinese café or an Indian restaurant. The skinheads live for "agro" (causing "aggravation") and "bovver" (street fighting). While they favor the boot as a primary weapon, they also use their heads to "nut" or butt a victim, and whatever other weapons come to hand: bricks, rocks, bottles, knives and razors. "Scar stuff," one skinhead explains. "We don't use weapons that will kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Skinheads | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...called "wallpaper music," because it is largely concerned with surface textures and shapes. Ligeti's Volumina, for example, would go beautifully with white plastic furniture and the spare squares of Josef Albers. The work consists of dissonant clusters of notes produced by leaning on the keys with the butt of the hand and the forearm. Volumina radiates the same waves of contrived unreality as Ligeti's Atmospheres, which defined the mood of outer space conclusively on the sound track of the film 2001. As an experiment, Volumina recalls the way Cage and Henry Cowell, in the 1930s, used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Organ as Synthesizer | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...seems that Anita, after waltzing home all aglow with vita and vino, had yanked the covers off her sleeping spouse, Sometime Actor Rile.von Nutter. "I didn't want to hit her in the face," Rik explained. "I just turned her over my knee and gave her the reddest butt you ever saw. And that's not a tiny bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 1, 1970 | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...couldn't help remembering the early days of grease; the late andgreat days, the vital days. The sixth-grade dances at the Boys' Club, and then sheaking out to the woods for a butt afterwards before walking the chicks down to the Goody Shop for an ice cream soda. Riding around in his brother's '56 Ford convertible with "Donna" blasting out of the radio...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Three-Quarters of a Tube of Score Works | 5/8/1970 | See Source »

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