Word: fored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner abroad who demanded his bill in "real money." "They argue over checks less often," says Jean Bruel, owner of Bateaux Mouches, the famed sightseeing boats in Paris. "The; now ask you if you speak English be fore they talk to you in English. They no longer assume that they can pay you with a credit card or a traveler's check but ask you first...
...headlights that beam vaguely, duskily across the spread of road and desert that lap across each other here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our headlights in smoothflowing creaminess, the antlers pierce mutely our forward fall: motionless, steady in their chrome cage, at the fore of our seamless void, too strong, too immutable in their decay for our quick-lipped, easy spun gasp of time...
...taking hold. The economy's index of leading indicators, which had fallen for eleven straight months until March, rose in May for the third consecutive month. This was the first three-month rise since 1972 in those indicators, which usually move ahead of the overall economy and fore tell its future course. Among the sensitive leaders that were up in May were new orders for consumer goods, contracts for plant and equipment, building permits, the size of the money supply and common stock prices (see following story). Those figures suggest strongly that the economy, which has been plunging since...
...shock. The "it" that is alive is a genetic monstrosity, born to a couple of Los Angeles parents (John Ryan, Shar on Farrell), which comes into the world with fangs, claws and a strong homicidal impulse. It wreaks all kinds of havoc, and is ultimately done in just be fore the news that a similar monstrosity has been born in Seattle...
Goldwin screens his potential guest stars as carefully as a pro football scout checks out college gridiron talent. Be fore each meeting he painstakingly explores possible avenues of conversation with each participant, managing in the end to ensure that thinkers with various viewpoints will speak to the same issue. Goldwin puts a premium on spontaneity but sometimes fears that the academics will waste the President's time with trivia. In preparation for the first dinner-seminar he held, he spent at least five hours with each guest and bluntly informed them that he considered some of their ideas peripheral...