Word: chucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody figured to hang cartoons in a museum. Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and the Disney elves were considered ghetto artisans then, not the Leonardos of cinema comedy. But even a ten-year-old moviegoer knew that these guys, on the screen and behind the scenes, were a hard act to follow...
Partly because of their long-standing prejudices and misconceptions, Americans accounted for only 6% of foreign visitors last year. "We were a bit frightened about Turkey," says Chuck Pyfer, a physician from Eugene, Ore., who is backpacking through the country with his wife Kathy. "All our friends asked us, 'Why would you ever want to go there?' " After first visiting Greece and one of its islands, Kos, about six miles off the Turkish coast, the Pyfers decided on the spur of the moment to see Bodrum. They loved what they found. "The people are gentle and gracious, and the villages...
Attempts to secure a spring concert were equally unsuccessful. In April, the council in emergencey session voted down a planned Chuck Berry concert, which would have cost $25,000. The vote, bolstered by representatives who said the show would be too expensive and too short, came after a non-council representative negotiationg on behalf of the council had verbally agreed to a late April concert with Berry's agent. It was unclear whether the council action would hurt Harvard's reputation among music agents and the council's chances of signing acts in the future...
...worrisome parallels to a 1981 crash of a Boeing 737 owned by Far Eastern Air Transport. All 110 people aboard that jet perished when the fuselage floor as well as roof peeled back at roughly the same altitude as that of Flight 243. Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly corrosive atmosphere of the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. "The only difference this time is that...
...turns out that none of the Graveses has invited Chuck; each assumes that he is another's friend. By the time they make this discovery, though, it may be too late. Having committed improprieties ranging from theft to sexual assault against individual family members, Chuck seems to be planning something supremely unpleasant for the Graveses as a group. Both phone lines are mysteriously out of order, and neither of the two cars on the isolated premises will start. What is to happen when night falls...