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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie in a couple of hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating huge amounts of food due to "munchies," stoned people in a car swallowing all their drugs to prevent the police from finding the evidence, innumerable puns on the word "shit"--and they are run by you time and again in a desperate attempt to get laughs. Yok yok. It turns out that making jokes about grass is much the same as smoking...

Author: By Eric Fried., | Title: Cheech and Chong Burn Out | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

After he goes outside and begins to drive his car, Pedro finds a hitch-hiker on the highway who appears to have large breasts. Alas, it is only a bearded hippie (Chong) who has stuffed two hemispheres under his shirt to get a ride. The conversation goes something like this...

Author: By Eric Fried., | Title: Cheech and Chong Burn Out | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...buyers, this will mean not only slightly better mileage but higher sticker prices. Citing, among other things, the cost of making their cars more fuel-efficient, the Big Three have raised their prices about 4% as the new model-year begins, and further hikes may be ahead. Inflation long ago drove the automakers to abandon single-shot increases for an entire model-year. Now the hikes come in bits and pieces. Ford's Mustang, for example, increased in price 14% from the start of the '78 model-year to now. The average price of a U.S.-made car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Dieting in Detroit | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...wheel drive Chevy Nova. Ford has lagged behind GM and Chrysler (with its Omni/Horizon) in getting into front-wheel drive; its only entry in the field now is the Fiesta, which it makes in Spain and sells in the U.S. But Ford intends to produce a front-wheel-drive car domestically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Dieting in Detroit | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Complaint-Mobile, the van tours San Francisco, displaying a big sign asking: HAVE YOU BEEN RIPPED OFF? Men and women volunteers in the district attorney's consumer-fraud/white-collar-crime unit listen to the complaints of passersby, then mediate with merchants, doctors and the Like. Most complaints concern car repairs; others range from false advertising to ill-fitting hairpieces. One woman complained of a backache that came from wearing a bra supposed to increase her bust size. No complaint is too small: the unit once got back a 200 soda-bottle deposit for a small boy from his neighborhood grocer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Blue Van | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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