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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, there is an amber light flashing caution in the industry. Even with the substantial customer demand and profit margins that average from 8% to 10%, automakers fear that some of these high-strung dream cars may be speeding down the road to extinction. They will hardly be done in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exotic Steals at $40,000 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

In the classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

As a bawdy judge with a balky wig, Rooney breathes lewd life into the traditional courtroom skit as he scoots down from the bench for a popeyed examination of Miller's aphrodisiacal legs. The role of the intermission bandit who hawks candy and salacious Parisian pictures is played with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mighty Mick on Broadway | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Different folks paint with different strokes. But that is no reason why a 20th century artist like Andrew Wyeth should not come to the aid of an 18th century portrait painter like Gilbert Stuart. To buoy Bostonians who are trying to raise $2.5 million by year's end to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Science fiction is pastoral turned upside down, radiating a nostalgia not for what was but for what could be. Since this mystic longing has increasingly filled the novels and stories of Author Doris Lessing, 59, it is not surprising that she has finally got around to spaceships and galactic travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visit to a Small Planet | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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