Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harrison, Colbert and Rose lend the static scene a picture-book grace, render fitfully amusing lines as if they had been minted by La Rochefoucauld, and are never so tactless as to reveal that, dramatically speaking, their oxygen supply has been cut off. -T.E. Kalem
...Stewart: Time Passages (Arista). Easygoing voyages into the fantastical by a British rocker who treads lightly. May be too lightly; but songs like A Man for All Seasons (yes, it's about Sir Thomas More) and the title cut have a wistful, uninsistent delicacy that will mightily appeal to any college sophomores in the family as they fret over their first submission to the literary magazine...
...kidneys or a man-made substitute, but by another part of the body: the thin membrane lining the abdominal, or peritoneal, cavity and covering the organs that jut into it, including the stomach, liver, spleen and intestines, as well as the kidneys. To make this area accessible, doctors cut a small permanent opening just below the navel, then implant a tube that leads through the peritoneal membrane and into the cavity itself...
...jumping ship. A journeyman today could be earning $95,000. But the money continues to flow in to pay the salaries. The majors this year drew 40,636,886 customers, a 36% jump since 1976 and a 76% increase during the past decade. The 26 major league teams also cut up $94 million in network television revenues, plus banking whatever they could earn from local stations...
Pete Rose, for one, scoffs at the notion that his fight for money has eroded the game, and understandably he has little pity for owners. When his batting average dropped to .284 in 1974, the first time below .300 in ten seasons, the Reds tried to cut the salary of the home-town hero by 20%. It was the first salvo in a bitter fight that ended last week with Rose pulling down a Phillies cap over his pageboy. Rose also knows he can sell a lot of tickets for the Phils to cover his salary. Says baseball...