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Word: fannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their first appearance in the West, after two years of enforced idleness in Leningrad waiting for emigration visas. After a sparkling pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the audience of 3,000 relaxed, relieved to discover that the two dancers easily reestablished their reputations. Said one fan: "He took off like a jet." And when the Panovs completed the program with Valeri's own choreography of Harlequinade, they were acclaimed with ten minutes of rhythmic applause. Overwhelmed by their reception, Valeri said: "It's as though we have been born anew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1974 | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...play focuses around the drafting of Conrad Birdie, a teen-age rock star. Rosie, however, comes up with a way to turn the loss of her boss's only client into a financial bonanza--pick a Birdie fan at random for Conrad to kiss on the Ed Sullivan Show after singing his new song, "One Last Kiss." Rosie also wants Albert (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), her boss, to quit songwriting, break away from his protective mother, and become an English teacher. Her dreams all come to pass by the final curtain call...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Sexism Put to Music | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

Just a little more noise than the usual Harvard fan emits...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

...fan, an Illinois truck driver named Jerry Menozzi, has 1,400 beer cans in his basement, including a Monarch that his great-grandmother kept for decades in a drawer with her lace underwear. Morrie McPherson, of Sycamore, Ill., lucked into one of the biggest beer-can bonanzas in B.C.C.A. history: 60 cases of 25-year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Can Cult | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...league without a team in the nation's biggest TV market. The Houston Texans have shifted to Shreveport, La. Attendance at some games is dismal: 750 recently turned out at Philadelphia's 100,000-seat J.F.K. Stadium on a rainy night to see the Bell play, and fan support league-wide has fallen sharply below expectations. Reports of overdue paychecks are rampant; members of the Florida Blazers have gone six weeks without salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The W.F.L. Blowout | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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