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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming into the Country is actually three lengthy bulletins about Alaska, glued together like aerial reconnaissance photographs. The first describes a canoe trip that McPhee and four companions took down an unspoiled river in the northwestern reaches of the state, well above the Arctic Circle. Second, McPhee tells of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Well-Done Alaska | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Harris views cultural history as the outcome of the growth of populations until their demands exceed available resources which encourages ever greater intensification of production. Inevitably, as ecologists like Barry Commoner have warned loudly for the last decade, this leads to depletion of the environment. For a culture to survive...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Anthropological Soma Cubes | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

By last week's end the FBI appeared near a break on the case after administering lie detector tests to bank employees. (The chief teller and almost all of the 100 other bank workers passed the test with no trouble.) Said an FBI agent cryptically: "The pieces are beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chicago's Great Bank Heist | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Tender, sensitive and deep, Elgin is repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

The answer might lie in the fact that the primary virtue of the film--its celebration of innocence--also presents something of a drawback to the filmmaker; until the romance starts to go awry, there's not much to The Lacemaker. Goretta has established the mood through a number of...

Author: By Tim Noah, | Title: An Ode to Innocence | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

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