Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barricades are seen only fleetingly by most middle-class Americans as they rush by in their cars or commuter trains?doors locked, windows closed, moving fast. But out there is a different world, a place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes. Affluent people know little about this world, except when despair makes it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news. Behind its crumbling walls lives a large group of people who are more intractable, more socially alien and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass...
...Ward department stores, and Atlantic-Richfield's $700 million buy-out of Anaconda, the copper-mining giant. Right now, Gulf Oil has offered $440 million for Kewanee Industries, an independent oil and gas producer; PepsiCo has bid $315 million in stock for Pizza Hut, a chain of franchised fast-food stores; and Anderson, Clayton & Co., a major food processor, initially offered $323 million, before later reducing its bid, to buy control of Gerber Products, maker of two-thirds of the nation's baby food...
...that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week, at the age of 42, that was the way he died...
...Chico, Gummo and Zeppo. They reached the pinnacle of Broadway in the mid-1920s and went on to hilarious movies, such as Horse Feathers (1932) and A Night at the Opera (1935), that still enjoy a huge cult following and invariably feature Groucho as an appealing rogue capable of fast-talking his way out of any difficulty. On his radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life, he was able to deploy all his famous trademarks: the loping gait, arched eyebrows, lecherous leer and emotive cigar. He was, above all, the master of the rapid-fire wisecrack. Examples: While...
With Star Wars fast becoming the biggest moneymaker ever (box office receipts are $12 million a week), the movie industry is wasting no time jumping onto the spacewagon. 20th Century-Fox is already plotting its first Star Wars sequel, and other film makers are rushing to make their own sci-fi flicks before the fad wears thin. Judging from some of their plans, that may not take too long...