Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible to study here," complains Dan Rossberger, a Cornell freshman living in a study lounge with four others. Meanwhile 200 Boston University students, assigned to three decrepit buildings hastily leased by the school, say they must try to study while cockroaches dart across their feet, workmen fix plaster above their heads and prostitutes ply their trade near...
There is a Grammy Hall, in her 80s, who is still trying to fix Diane up with nice young men from her neighborhood in Los Angeles. She thinks the film was very funny and says, "That Woody Allen, he's something! I can't make head or tail out of half of what he says." She, not Diane, appears to be the ranking family cutup; when Diane's sister Dorrie, 24, had to write a genealogical essay in the manner of Roots for college, Grammy Hall obligingly gave phony details about ancestors unto the fifth generation...
Newspapers have lately developed a huge appetite for so-called service features on every self-help subject, from "Indoor Gardening" to "Outdoor Life." "People want to read about how to maintain the car, keep their health, fix the plumbing," says Priscilla Felton, manager of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Book serialization is another growth industry. The New York Times Syndicate has paid six-figure sums for the rights to syndicate forthcoming blockbusters by H.R. Haldeman and Richard Nixon, and picked up Alex Haley's Roots for a song before the book's TV series caught on. Universal...
...well-to-do majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves or their children. Its members are victims and victimizers in the culture of the street hustle, the quick fix, the rip-off and, not least, violent crime...
...being counted. Lyndon was there pleading for 200 more votes, according to Salas, and George Parr ordered them faked and stuffed into ballot box No. 13. Johnson triumphed in that primary election over former Governor Coke Stevenson. The Salas narrative suggested strongly that the protests were smothered because the fix was put in all the way up through Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and President Harry Truman...