Word: firming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BECAUSE AS THE divisions firm up, we reanze that one of the few bonds remaining in contemporary American culture is Sport, more precisely. Televised Sport. Don't believe me? Check the ratings on Super Bowl XII--it was the most-watched television extravaganza of all time. Then see where the New Yorker subscribers are. Then check out how many records the Sex Pistols sold. And remember they only print a million copies of The New York Times every day. What do I think? I think that you might be interested in reading a novel by a talented and growing writer...
...been one of the people in the crowd which packed Longfellow Hall last Wednesday night, you would have seen a short woman with grey wavy hair who proudly wears the demeanor of a mother and a grandmother. Her hands, firm and full, told of the work that she has had to do in order to raise her family. You only would have needed to scratch the surface a bit to find the core of toughness and conviction that has fought long and hard for the independence and survival of her beliefs and the beliefs of others...
Wiprud portrays Tchaik, a glorified office boy" in a London import-export firm, with sensitivity and intensity. Not satisfied to play Tchaik, who is apprehensive about the date and generally inexpressive, with typical manifestations of nervousness, Wiprud gives the character depth by exploring his insecurities about relationships with women. Although he falters somewhat, allowing his intensity and energy level to drop when Tchaik is supposed to be drunk, on balance Wiprud turns in a believable, controlled and emotional performance...
Built by the West German firm of Neoplan Co. for some $600,000, the 594-ft-long Snoozer consists of two double-decker cars, joined by an accordion-like hinge, on an air-suspended chassis; it can traverse the bumpiest byway. Powered by a 10-cylinder, 400-h.p. Daimler-Benz diesel engine, the superbus can reach 80 m.p.h. and is as high and wide as the aw permits (13.12 ft. by 8.2 ft); a six-footer can walk its length without stooping...
...proliferation of less ambitious studies and surveys, some of them amounting to market research, has occurred in the past few years. The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a nationwide study of income and education as determinants of happiness. The advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn carried out a similar but broader survey to find out whether their clients' potential consumers "were happier ... than other segments of the population." Scientific studies of worker "contentment" have been going on for years, to be sure, but are not quite the same as the new wave of investigations into...