Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bing says, all a matter of economics. "I am behind the times-so is the American public. And they are the people who buy the tickets; the critics get in free. To make successful opera in New York you do Carmen, Boheme and Traviata, and then Traviata, Boheme and Carmen, Stage a modern work and during the third performance you could put on a blindfold, spray the house with a machine gun and be pretty sure that you would never hit anybody...
...landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start at $3,500 for 10,000 sq. ft. and climb...
...sprout-who slaughter rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over their wives, mistresses, businesses, and their expanding waistlines. And at last the verbal sniping takes a deadly turn-hunters hunting hunters...
Life insurance borrowing seems an attractive way for an individual to raise money. But policyholders presumably have not paid premiums for that purpose; rather, they buy life insurance for the security of their heirs. Thus, the Institute of Life Insurance recently warned against "indiscriminate borrowing which may jeopardize a family's insurance program...
...French love whatever comes out of a bottle, even if it happens to be water. Not ordinary water, of course, which they distrust. Last year they spent $160 million to buy 1.75 billion bottles of Eau minérale...