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Word: cutoffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee socks and track shoes to sing Love Is a Rose and That'll Be the Day. She is dead serious about her music, but the superstar nonsense amuses her; once she kidded her Moonbeam McSwine reputation by posing for an album cover in a barnyard with a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...approach to a Third World policy. Human rights are stressed: "The United States should not in any way abet repressive actions or allow itself to be associated with brutally repressive governments." The report cautions against any attempt to dictate the form of Latin governments, but it strongly urges a cutoff of military aid to countries like Chile whose ruling regimes flagrantly violate civil liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Good Neighbors Again? | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Four years ago I watched my brother break his leg. I have a complete instant replay in my mind. Lee is a much better skier than I am, so I followed him down a narrow cutoff and watched as he stumbled for a split-second and flew off into the trees, where a small elm broke his fall and both bones in his right calf. Lee still skis...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Downhill Skiing Mentality | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...that wall to lean my back on," the Berlin Philharmonic. Such is the trust between Karajan and his musicians that he often conducts with his eyes closed. "I can feel the players better," he says. He gives few entry cues and the vaguest of cutoff gestures. Explains Karajan: "Baton technique is what the people see, but it is all nonsense. The hands do their job because they have learned what to do. In the performance I forget about them. The molding comes when the orchestra and conductor come together in a sort of union. Things happen that are too delicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Karajan: A New Life | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...organization cut the group's take to around $40,000, though their staff of 500 volunteers freed much of that money for other uses. Another headache for CFLT was that under House Bill 5020, introduced by Representative Piro of Somerville, 85 per cent of the people are below the cutoff point. The bill died in the Ways and Means Committee, but its tables were used as the basis for argument on question...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Taxophobia: The Poor Uphold a Rich Man's Tax | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

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