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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beneath the feathered hats and the enormous glasses Elton is known for, apart from the foot-high platform shoes and the carpeted pianos, there has always lurked a moody, but very good singer, songwriter and piano player. Success spoiled him. Somehow the piano player got lost among the glamorous and...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: An Overdressed Piano Player | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

Now a court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Homestead Act Hits Home | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

That $1.25 billion sale would represent an enormous victory for Airbus Industrie, a French-German-Spanish company that is now struggling to keep production lines open and sell enough planes to break even. No European-made passenger jets have been bought by U.S. carriers since the 1960s, when American Airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now, the Poor Man's Jumbo Jet | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Sponsored by Prince Mohammed al Faisal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Towing Icebergs | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Bertolucci's grand theatrics are of limited use when 1900 's second half devolves into good-guys v. bad-guys melodrama. Major characters who do not fit precisely into the director's polarized political scheme (notably the weak patrician liberals played by De Niro and Dominique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Epic Century | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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