Word: fan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naipaul's impeccably crafted books. He maintains a level of tension that becomes almost intolerable; the reader can feel the vines and the president's guard coming too close to his house. This is writing that makes one want to open a window or turn on a fan. Or keep a gun by the bedside...
Statler and Waldorf, the old geezers who heckle the TV show, pop up long enough for Statler to say, "I've seen detergents that leave better films than this." This is too harsh, though even an addicted Muppet fan must admit that the movie has draggy stretches. The transition from the yank-'em-off-if-they-bomb lunacy of the TV show to the coherent narration of the film is not a complete success. Muppet magic remains a bewildering succession of wonderful bits, and perhaps the movie's best occurs when Rowlf...
Carter has long been a fan of solar energy. His inauguration stand was partly heated by the sun's rays, and on Sun Day last year he called for a "dawning of the second solar age." The Administration's new program is by no means the large-scale and probably wasteful crash effort advocated by solar enthusiasts at the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency. But it does call for $646 million to be spent on research in fiscal 1980. The program would be funded in part by revenues from the windfall...
...bill to boggling heights-$40 billion last year, perhaps $50 billion this year. The result was a three-year string of stinging trade deficits, including a record $28.5 billion in 1978. The devastating drop in the value of the dollar overseas, which largely reflected the poor trade situation, helped fan domestic inflation by making imports more expensive...
...Musica Sacra singers also perform) and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a 160-voice amateur chorus. And he is planning another Basically Bach festival for next year. All of this has forced him to forgo his weekly summer baseball games and subside to the status of a merely passionate fan. His team? "The Yankees-I guess because they're winners." Coming from a man with Westenburg's recent record, that figures...