Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit residents celebrated last week as wildly as when Michigan beats Ohio State. But the city's leaders were not content with just landing the Republican Convention. Declared Mayor Young: "We're not through yet. Now we'll convince the Democrats to bring their 1980 convention here too." That will take some even fancier selling. The Democratic National Committee, which will make its choice this summer, listens to Jimmy Carter, and the President is said to be whistling Dixie these days...
...light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...play he built around it, rather slickly labeled a "passionate dark comedy" by the Boston Shakespeare Company for their well-oiled production. Critics have typically been more cautious, calling it a "problem play," but that doesn't answer anything. Say it's a play with comic form but tragic content, if you must...
...than ten acres. That has made it difficult for lumber and paper companies to come in and negotiate logging contracts, and much of the wilderness has become overgrown with low-grade timber of little commercial value. The New England Regional Commission, an economic development group, puts the total energy content of the area's forests at the equivalent of some 3 billion bbl. of oil, roughly the proven reserves of the Middle East sultanate of Oman. Unlike oil, the forest is a renewable resource and could provide a significant fraction of New England's energy needs indefinitely...
Wave to the Passing Motorists. Not content with the usual ways of putting the arm on potential givers, officials at the University of Southern California decided to put up freeway billboards reminding motorists of U.S.C.'s current fund drive. Explains U.S.C.'s Leonard Wines: "Everything adds up to make an impression...