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Word: forme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the set pieces have much to do with the plot, which has Moore as a composer growing bored with his longtime inamorata (Julie Andrews). His discontent takes the form of an obsession with a lovely creature (Bo Derek) whom he briefly glimpses in bridal gown and veil on her way to her wedding and ranks at the top of the familiar l-to-10 scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Alas, he has other, more serious fish to fry. These take the form of ponderous reflections on the contemporary situation of the sexes, on which subject he is distressingly garrulous, and not exactly Wildean in expressing himself. A digression into homosexuality is well-meaning, but somehow patronizing and out of tone with the rest of the film. A bedtime discussion between Moore and Andrews about just what he means by the term "broad" establishes Edwards' credentials as a feminist, but does not contribute much to the gaiety of nations. There are some boozy barroom dissertations that are every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...adopting is the Tax Reduction Act Stock Ownership Plan, or TRASOP. Under a law passed by Congress in 1975, a company can get an extra tax credit of up to 1% of its investment in new plant and equipment if it distributes that tax saving to employees in the form of company stock. The value of TRASOP to employees is lessened by the fact that they get the shares only when they leave the company. While this and other new departures in pay are engaging enough, most earners would probably agree with Daniel Lesh, manager of compensation at Honeywell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Compensation Woe: How to Pay? | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Ginn said many of admissions tickets were never even mailed and speculated that computer errors or the use of a new registration form may have caused the delay

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Won't Need Tickets For LSAT | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...application form for independent work was also revised last spring to make it clear to students just "what independent work was to be," Bowersock said. In a meeting last March, Dean Fox and Bowersock told the CUE that abuse of independent work credit had increased. Students were pursuing extracurricular, not academic studies, and credit was being allowed for studies that failed to meet the original independent work requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fewer Students Pursuing Independent Work Credit | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

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