Word: fan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childish to serious people. After all, adults perform in kids' shows like Captain Kangaroo, they play little boys' games like football and baseball, they run for Congress, and so on. Being an adult doesn't necessarily mean giving up childish things, the apostle Paul not-withstanding. As a fan of comic books in my grade school years, I suppose I always knew that comics didn't just generate themselves spontaneously, but the notion that grown men and women could spend their lives doing nothing but making up ridiculous stories about heroes who can fly and jump over buildings and stop...
...Metropolitan Opera debut 25 years ago. A Met understudy back then and the daughter of a shoe salesman, Peters had been called to duty when Nadine Connor fell ill hours before a scheduled performance in Don Giovanni. Last week, between acts of her 303rd Met performance (in Cost fan Tutte), Peters accepted a silver anniversary bowl from Met Board President William Rockefeller. The "little girl from The Bronx," she observed happily, "had really made...
...student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, "it's easy to understand the rules, and it's not long and drawn out like chess [average time to crack the code: 15 minutes]." Lis Nygaard, a television producer from Toronto, plays Master Mind on planes. She became a fan because, "You can break the ice with people. You get to know a lot about them: how they think, even what colors they like...
...pullout would wipe out not only 25,000 jobs in the company's own plants but perhaps 60,000 more in related industries. Workers are threatening to take over the plants if Chrysler goes home. A shutdown of the 7,000-worker factory in Lin wood, Scotland, might fan the flames of Scottish nationalism. And the Shah of Iran has ordered 126,000 Hunters in kit form; Wilson is not eager to anger one of Britain's principal suppliers of oil by letting Chrysler close without filling the order...
...Bilbao is the "Pittsburgh of Spain"--and the government's long struggle to repress the separatist movement can be expected to continue. However, the tension created by the presence of thirty-thousand paramilitary police in the north has not succeeded in discouraging separatist sentiment but rather has served to fan the flames of disenchantment with the present regime even among the most conservative factions of the Basque leadership. Imposition of arbitrary search and seizure measures, detainment without charges, and isolated incidents of violence are contributing to a growing desire to resist the national government, particularly among the young. All young...