Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the office, "Sigi," as his friends called him, had a reputation as a swinger who liked pretty girls and fast cars, and usually picked up the tab on his visits to local nightspots. He showered his girl friends, who fondly called him der Rosenkavalier, with clothing, jewelry and champagne. No one thought it strange that Sigi was able to indulge such playboy tastes on his $790-a-month soldier's pay. After all, he was known to be a lottery addict, and had once boasted of winning...
...homes by decade's end. Zenith will begin selling Sony systems under its own label next fall, and RCA will be marketing a Matsushita-built system by then too. If color TVs and pocket calculators are valid precedents, the price of video-tape units should fall fast. Even if Universal and Disney win a final verdict in, say, 1980, there may be so many machines and tapes in American living rooms that enforcing the decision would be a practical impossibility...
...civil rights lawyers kept beating a path to the doorways of federal courthouses, bypassing state courts whenever possible. "Civil rights lawyers became lazy," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They knew their best chance was to federalize everything, to get to the U.S. Supreme Court as fast as they could." Says Oregon Associate Justice Hans A. Linde, disapprovingly: "A generation of Americans was brought up to believe that all law and all wisdom come from these nine men in a marble temple." Even some liberal state court judges appreciated the trend, preferring that federal judges, appointed...
...detonated at just the right moment, can wipe out everybody in the stadium, down to the last pompon girl. With him is Marthe Keller, his mistress and representative of Black September, the Arab terrorist organization that is financing his attempt to turn homicidal fantasy into reality. Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counterterrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter, attach a skyhook to the blimp and tow it away from the stadium before Dern sets off his destruction...
...Only Thing I've Done Wrong is neither as fast-moving nor as tear-jerking as Love Story, and it doesn't tell you as much about your future as The Paper Chase. It tells you about your past, or more probably, someone else's. It addresses a small audience, made up of affluent young men and their fathers, and maybe even their mothers and girlfriends. It can't tell you why you wanted to punch your father one hot summer day, or why you didn't do it, or why he later punched you, or even why you still...