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Word: distinct (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however. Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seeking Planets That Do Not Exist | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Students may only be here for four years; nevertheless, they are still an intergral part of the University. Faculty, administration, and students--past, present, and future--are distinct but inseparable parts of the one Harvard-Radcliffe community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Convention Looks at the Core | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

...considerable movement of people is known to have occured, particularly during the Second World War years when new opportunities of employment opened up in towns and the military works in Palestine...(those immigrants came from) neighboring countries..." These are the people that Professor Said claims are a "population distinct in culture and dialect from other Arabs...

Author: By Nissan Degani, | Title: Palestinians and Zionism: Searching for a Homeland | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...will go far to assuage parental anxiety. Nothing about Shaun is calculated to intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric is disarming and reassuringly boyish, like a kid who has got all the moves down but not quite mastered the fine points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Squeaky-Clean Teen Dream | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...NATION'S highest law enforcers present contradictory testimonies, each anxious that the Justice Department will not be held responsible for failing to inform Carter of the Eilberg investigation, and the nation is to believe in the integrity of its servants? We are left with the distinct impression of a rather messy cover-up in two branches of the federal government--the judiciary and executive--and we are to believe the days of Watergate are over...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: ". . . And Nothing but the Truth"? | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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