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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly glad to see the movie people had not altered for the sake of a happy ending. Physically, however, my friends and I look different from Mr. Garth Williams' definitive illustrations in the book. We have been made cuter, which I suppose is nothing to complain about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Communication Received | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Tony awards for musicals he has either produced or directed-or both. In the past several years he has produced not only the longest-running show in Broadway's history, Fiddler on the Roof, but also two of the most innovative ones, Company and Follies. To hear him complain about possible failure-never a very distant possibility on Broadway -is a little like listening to Jean Paul Getty moan about rising meat prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Princely Odds | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...touch one another. It is as if the networks were earnestly trying to be adult-but not too adult. Some homosexuals, like Novelist Merle Miller (What Happened), applaud a show like That Certain Summer-a good drama by any standards-for its realistic and compassionate approach. Gay activists, however, complain that even Summer did not go far enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Out of the Closet | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

AFTER ANOTHER MONTH of "reconciliation" like this first month since the treaty was signed in Paris, the Vietnamese might well be in need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: If This is Peace, Who Needs War? | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

...want to get in touch with R. Buckminster Fuller-to invite him to accept yet another honorary degree, or to complain of a leak in your geodesic dome-what you do is cable "BUCKY," Carbondale, Ill. Trouble is, he is not likely to be there. With the exception of astronauts and veteran airline pilots, Fuller is one of the most traveled men in human history. There are well over 3,000,000 miles in his wake, and a schedule of worldwide lectures and consultations so crowded that he wears three watches. One runs on Carbondale time, where at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whole Universe Catalogue | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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