Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...News and Post (combined circulation: 3.4 million) and was backed up by all but one of its nine fellow craft unions (the typesetters, the only holdouts, have a no-strike contract) as well as by the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial employees. New Yorkers found their familiar newsstands either closed or peddling increased press runs of the Wall Street Journal and suburban papers; uninformed shoppers could not take advantage of the summer close-out sales; television and radio stations geared up for increased news programming...
...used to say, "It should look like rain, but not rain." Even television is credited with doing its bit by driving people out of the house with its stale summer reruns. Perhaps most important of all, last year's string of mega-hits-Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters of the Third Kind-has helped put the public back into the movie habit. Says 20th Century-Fox Senior Vice President Ashley Boone: "People are enjoying themselves. I don't know whether they are cheering for the swimmers or the sharks, but they are cheering...
...summer draws to a close, there are signs that more serious films could soon end the happy-movie trend. Woody Allen's first try at straight drama, Interiors, broke the house record for its first week in New York. That could be a sign of things to come, or may simply reflect the loyalty of Woody's fans. Even Paramount, which has made the most money from escape flicks this summer, is pinning its fall hopes on Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, a bleak story about migrant farm workers in Texas...
...never had any discernible effect on his thought or action. Last week a pillar of the conciliar generation, Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, said that carrying out the duties of the papacy is "humanly impossible." To ease the burden, he proposed a "synodal" Pope who would govern in close collaboration with the bishops...
...many names on the lips of the conclavists, five stand out, with several others in close contention and a large field of dark horses. The five...