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Word: clue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sayings: "That's me." "Don't get it bent." "Have a clue." "Have an idea." "Have a day." "Have a weekend." "That's that beauty of it." "How gay is that?" "Atsaboy." "It's just that simple." "In my face." "In your eye." "Take me deep...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: On the Road With the 'Crimson Dogs' | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...nose all over her lunch, but Carrie Snodgrass' blood splashes lovingly, lyrically over a windshield. Clearly, the more DePalma relishes his characters, the more he puts into their deaths. It would be nice to know something about his childhood and psychological background; perhaps it would give us a clue as to why he unleashes so much fury on his characters. He's so perverse and sadistic that he really is endearing--he probably sleeps on a rack. The Fury is a startlingly pure film: 100 per cent...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Splattering Psychics | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

Despite early reports of two attackers speeding away in a car, nobody actually saw any gunmen. In fact, the only clue the police discovered was a spent .44 magnum cartridge. Investigators thought the shots might have been fired from an abandoned hotel across the street. A rear door of the hotel gives access to a parking lot, an easy escape route for a gunman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Bloody Fall of a Hustler | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...much blood spilled in an attempt to change it. He continues to hope for a synthesis of Marx and Jefferson--an admirable hope, the hope of a moral man, a hope that combines economic justice with political liberty. But he does not give the reader much of a clue about how to approach this synthesis on a global scale...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: The Other Three-Fourths | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

Babbage's loom, alas, never wove anything. By the time the eccentric genius died in 1871, he had managed to put together just a few small parts; only his elaborate drawings provide a clue to his visionary machine. Indeed, when Harvard and IBM scientists rediscovered Babbage's work in the 1940s while they were building a pioneering electromechanical digital computer called Mark I, they were astonished by his foresight. Said the team leader, Howard Aiken: "If Babbage had lived 75 years later, I would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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