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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The carnival began in a holiday spirit as thousands of revelers calypsoed through the streets behind steel bands. Black organizations had signed up 130 voluntary stewards to help keep order, hoping to avoid a repetition of last summer's rioting in which 608 people (including 408 policemen) were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Bit of Hell In Notting Hill | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Action-adventure Rough-'em-up shows have not really disappeared, though they may be less gory. CHiPS, an acronym for California Highway Patrol, will be the season's one new cop show. (The cops are known as Chippies to California motorists, but NBC quickly saw the problem with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Job dramas The cops and gumshoes who dominate the TV job market will be joined by a few other career men. Actor Ed Asner, former chief of MTM's newsroom, gets a Los Angeles newspaper job-and a crusty lady boss-on CBS's Lou Grant. Lawyers Rosetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

His attack on the star has made him a wanted man, but it has also made him a minor celebrity, since a television news team happened to be on the scene when the fight occurred. Moreover, his prison record gives him-in the C. and W. world anyway-a suitably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mock Heroics | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

It just keeps bouncing amiably along, with Fonda at his most ingratiating, Saint James giving a performance that nicely balances Tina's strong drives toward both greed and love. Director Heffron (or his second-unit man) does not stage the several chase scenes as tightly as he might, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mock Heroics | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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