Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sabbath Songs. It is the company of other stars, though, that gives comfort to many of the show-business names who gather at the synagogue. No one is singled out by pesky fund raisers, autograph hunters or gawkers, a devotional hazard at other Los Angeles area synagogues. When he belonged to another temple, Comic Jack Carter recalls, "People kept staring and whispering, 'Isn't that Joey Bishop?' Now I'm with my own peers, and I dig the fellowship...
Many automen hope, of course, that the current move toward small size and fuel economy is a passing fancy. "People like big cars," says GM Chairman Richard Gerstenberg. "The bulk of the people who buy a car want comfort and convenience, and they are willing to pay for it." The history of the U.S. consumer lends that view considerable merit ?but a continuing energy crisis could change the taste of many buyers who might otherwise prefer a larger car. The automakers are acting as if that might happen; they are converting to small-car production as fast as they...
...fireplaces in the Houses were originally installed to enhance the architecture. Paul Rouillard, manager of the Central Services Department of Buildings and Grounds said yesterday the fireplaces were designed for comfort. If necessary, the fireplaces were to be used only as a secondary source of heat for students, Rouillard said. A fireplace can effectively radiate heat to only one room...
This old and unreliable cliché remains in vogue precisely because it is a comfort to the cynically inert conscience. Why risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome...
...cancels the flights, she said, charter passengers will receive a full refund before Christmas vacation. But that should be little comfort to most of them: both United and American Airlines are booked solid on almost all their California flights during the week before Christmas...