Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afraid too many are just looking for political votes." Added Evelyn Dubrow, veteran lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers: "I think the members have been sold a bill of goods by the conservatives. It's like we never had a New Deal or a Fair Deal or a Great Society...
...anyone who has not been there, the Cannes Film Festival sounds like paradise: free movies, bountiful booze, great food and beautiful people all converge under the sunny skies of the Cóte d'Azur. Would that it were so. In reality, the festival is a grotesque trade fair. The few good movies are mobbed; the best restaurants are overbooked; traffic jams glut the countryside; it often rains. The festival celebrates money, not art, and only the industry's hustlers seem to have fun. For anyone else, a day in Cannes is like a week in Vegas...
...fair-sized army of company brass, auditors, accountants, lawyers and Government investigators are still sifting through records of the past five years. Each manager has been grilled individually. To safeguard possible evidence, investigators had Weston's office sealed by a carpenter. When they ordered typeface samples from all the unit managers' typewriters, one manager's machine disappeared after a mysterious 2 a.m. fire in his office...
...Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...
...game lasted only two hours and ten minutes, hardly a fair trade off for the hopes lodged in Thursday's eight-hour Odyssey to vengeful Ithaca...