Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect, punish him with kindness; a horny youth and a seemingly respectable woman who use their rigs for mutually masturbatory conversations; a radio priest and a radio fascist who employ the air waves to peddle their doctrines. In the classic manner of exploitation pictures, the movie moves fast and speaks bluntly. It does not linger long over anyone's sense of anomie or alienation, but the panel-cartoon style i. effective. It is enough to be made aware of these empty lives...
What accounts for so much of Washington's sound-alike journalism? The press corps itself often laments rat-pack reporting, the result of too many people and cameras covering the same obvious event. This phenomenon does explain many of the capital's transient curiosities, hasty judgments and fast-fading enthusiasms. But the real tone o Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what...
...cars in order to meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success...
Concord sales, unlike those of AMC's other models like the Gremlin and Matador, have in fact started fast. But unfortunately for the company, Concord is not all that different; it faces stiff competition from the Ford Fairmont, Chrysler's Dodge Aspen and General Motors' Chevy Nova. And Meyers' optimism reminds skeptical Detroiters of the company's early exuberance about the glassy Pacer, whose sales in 1975, the year of introduction, really did hit 100,000?and then almost stopped. Whether Concord can keep up its initial success will go far to determine if Meyers remains the head...
...IMMIGRANTS by Howard Fast Houghton Mifflin; 389 pages...