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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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His Hobbits are cloying creatures made totally unreal by the jerky animation. His Black Riders with their red eyes and shuffling walks suggest the Jawas from Star Wars, not the nightmare spirits who scared me so badly on my first encounter with them at 10 that I put down the...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Ripping-Off the Ring | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

Atiyeh, the son of Syrian immigrants, will be the nation's first Governor of Arab descent. In a vigorous grass-roots campaign, he traveled 40,000 miles, relentlessly calling for tax relief for homeowners. Straub apparently misread the antitax mood until very late in the campaign. Said Atiyeh after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nimble Crisscrossing | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Propagated through 317 Saturday Evening Post covers and countless other illustrations, this consoling fiction made Rockwell seem a reticent monument of Americanism. In 1976, more than 10,000 spectators and 2,000 participants turned out for a Rockwell parade during the Bicentennial in Stockbridge, where he lived with his third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rembrandt of Punkin Crick | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

What follows at this not-so-grand hotel covers most of the seven deadly sins. Despite its emphasis on tight plotting and revolving guests, the series does not scrimp on atmosphere or the incidental grace notes that so enriched Upstairs, Downstairs. The supply of gifted British character actors seems as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: There's a Small Hotel | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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