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Word: choicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opulent score has long attracted a cult following. It is justifiable in such numbers as Standing on the Corner, Big D and Don 't Cry. The evening's choicest prize is the marvel of the human voice - unamplified. Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. They and their colleagues practice vocal witchcraft. -T.E.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Monopod | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Best Little Whorehouse in Tex as. No one who is out for an evening of fun will have a better time on all of Broad way. Racy in language but bawdily in nocent, the show is a treat in book, song and dance, and the choicest treat of all is Henderson Forsythe as the sheriff and Carlin Glynn as the madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer Fair | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Zappa has always handled most masterfully is mass America: crass commercialism, media hype, and the other things that numb our minds. From his songs of 1965 "Who Are the Brain Police?", to his more recent commemoration of television "I Am the Slime," Zappa has to his credit rock's choicest statements on mass euthanasia (though admittedly, because their babies are treatin' them bad, other songwriters rarely address such topics). Zappa's critical eye looked beyond the government and Vietnam to the covert "moral faseism" of American society. While others lambast politicians and corporate honchos, he criticizes everything and everyone. Zappa...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...bring to my students life-giving thoughts. I teach them to hate the shameful exploitation of man by man and the man-hating ideology or racial exclusiveness. I teach my students that life is the highest principle and therefore should not be bought or sold for even the choicest pieces of silver...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy" as 362 pièces (a pièce is the equivalent of 25 cases of twelve bottles each) of the choicest 1978 Cms fetched prices that averaged just over 50% above last year's already exalted rates. By the time it becomes available in a Paris restaurant two or three years from now, a bottle of 1978 Pommard may cost as much as $50. "The Burgundy market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Burgundy Boom | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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