Word: defunction
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...People All Around is an energetic, thoughtful effort, both on the part of its author and of the Tufts company. But it is a case of misapplication: the serious-theatre void of the 1960's will not adequately be filled by the defunct self-consciousness...
...businessman, Hartford sometimes works from the top down. He has emptied treasure into such disparate ventures as Show magazine (sold for a $7,000,000 loss), Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art (annual deficit: $580,000), an automated parking garage and, inevitably, his Handwriting Institute, now defunct...
...rate the new program will probably mean the end of an era for PBH, Rabinowitz said. The Social Service Committee, which the program will replace, was the first committee in PBH history back in 1894. Many of PBH's present projects are outgrowths of the soon-to-be-defunct Committee...
Married. Tina Louise, 32, resident voluptuary on CBS's Gilligan's Island; and Les Crane, 32, brash host on the now defunct ABC show Nightlife, who lost the ratings battle to Johnny Carson last year; she for the first time, he for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Startling even Justice Department lawyers, the court voted 5 to 4 to up hold Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's $28,000 fine and five-year federal sentence for selling the now defunct magazine Eros and two other obscene publications through the mails. By a vote of 6 to 3, the court upheld Edward Mishkin's three-year New York sentence for planning and peddling 140 weird little "bondage" books (Screaming Flesh, House of Torture, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism and typically spiced with scenes of naked girls whipping each other. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court...