Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ownership the way American daily newspapers began to huddle in chains during the 1950s. During that period, a morning newspaper might buy its afternoon rival to consolidate costs, creating monopoly, or what A. J. Liebling called "profitable stagnation." The news that gets reported may not be all that's fit to print; sometimes it may be, like Pravda, what the monopolist decides is news...
...kind are seldom seen in the West, because most of the surviving ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance portrait sculpture-one thinks...
...curious about science but don't enjoy heavy political ramifications, or if you always wanted to be a pilot when you were little, a discussion of how airplanes fly at the Museum of Science this Friday at 7:30 may fit the bill. The discussion is the first in a series that the Air Line Pilots Association will present at no charge above regular museum admission. If you haven't been to this museum yet, you ought to. There are enough gadgets to twirl and buttons to push to make you feel as though you are discovering most of modern...
There were other super outfits. Jon Garrity, Bobby Folkes, and Jackie Hughes came dressed as four-year, all-Ivy lettermen and certainly played like it, Brain Petrovek found his All-American goalie costume that he'd been missing for about a year and proved that it still fit, and Mike Clasby's two key assists showed that his brand new varsity uniform won't need any alterations...
...author Sharon were members of the first havurah, in Somerville, Mass., where with a fellow member, Richard Siegel, they began compiling the first Catalog. "Jews have always borrowed from the culture of any land they happened to be in, and Judaized what they took," says Strassfeld. "Our books fit into this tradition. We're creating a new American Judaism." Meanwhile, if you yearn to take part in Israeli folk dancing, the Strassfelds list 15 addresses in California alone...