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Word: craps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, Arledge and Cosell refuse to recycle the intramural chaff that passes for conversation on talk shows and taped variety series. "We hope to attract guests who are not normally seen on television," explains Arledge. Adds Cosell: "Are you happy with the pretaped Hollywood shows which have a floating crap game of guests with McLean Stevenson this week, Tim Conway the next week, moving between Carol Burnett and Cher?" Instead Arledge and Cosell scheduled "acts"-performers doing a full turn. ABC has money to book the best: each show is budgeted at around $250,000 and, as Howard says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Due Bills | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

John P. Nelson Jr., Perkins's attorney, Tuesday said the judge's argument concerning membership restrictions on the basis of subjective criteria apart from race is "a lot of crap." He said "there never have been whites denied membership...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: New Orleans Judge Refuses Injunction In Race Bias Case | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...considers this kind of "honesty" the most basic part of a conductor's obligation. "You can build the most fancy skyscrapers, modern, artistic looking buildings, but you can't forget to put in the toilet. There is no illusion about all these dreamy, misty-eyed things. You put that crap-house...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...reliance on analogies and poetic images to express his meaning. Chen is surprisingly tough-minded about musical interpretation. He is unmoved by "19th century poetic crap" and condemns those romantics who "use all that perfume and stuff just to cover them up because they don't bathe...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...million hungry refugees from the Ganges commandeer 100 rusty ships-heavily freighted with symbolism and exiles-and set sail for the promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor White Trash | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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