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Word: fails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work and own and love will do that, and this will require Christianity to challenge deep-seated values and powerful interests. Unless that happens, the passionate quest for the human, so eloquently displayed by the East Turners, but felt by all of us, will surely fail...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...either. For a ticket that never got higher than $5, the hall offered its customer not merely a movie but performances by a 75-member symphony orchestra, a resident corps de ballet, visiting vocalists and instrumentalists, and zealous sing-alongs with the booming organ. And, always, the machine-perfect, fail-proof routines of the pert-figured, high-kicking Rockettes. On seasonal holidays there were, in addition, lavishly staged extravaganzas during which the mammoth stage might be transformed into a cathedral, or a racecourse for chariots drawn by live horses, or a harbor bearing the illusion of full-size ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Shrine of Showbigness Goes Down | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...building is a mechanical marvel, capable of seating in air-conditioned comfort the entire populations of Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco, with room left over for a couple of football teams, four trade exhibitions, a dog show and a few hundred ushers, guards and food vendors. Or, as Orleanians never fail to point out, it could swallow Houston's Astrodome with hardly a burp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...only does medical education fail to instill an interest in the biological basis or physiological concomitants of aging, but there is evidence that the student's view of the elderly actually deteriorates during medical school," said Rowe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elderly Medical Care | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

...movie were only the dancing, interspersed with a few shots of Tony Manero at work or at home, it would fail miserably. Luckily, the film goes much deeper than that. The central dynamic in the film is the increasing tension between Tony and his Bay Ridge world. Tony is growing up, moving apart from this Italian ghetto. And that growth is immeasurably accelerated by Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), another Bay Ridge dancer whom Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Only a Slight 'Fever' | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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