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Word: funke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Funk and Grace. Within the classic range, there will be variations. "We are not a socialist country," says Designer Donald Brooks, "so why should there be a single look?" Brooks, in line with his own designs, predicts that girl watchers will be observing "marvelous-looking girls in styles ranging from the deep and great funk to the beginnings of pride, elegance, grace and femininity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Minneapolis Look | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Rock shows are canceled in Hampton Beach, N.H., when youths try to break into a sold-out ballroom. Worried officials are vastly relieved when 55,000 enthusiasts of the Grand Funk Railroad fill New York's Shea Stadium-and only three injuries and six arrests result. After an estimated 1,280 concerts for 3,750,000 music enthusiasts over a period of nearly six years, Promoter Bill Graham closes his Fillmore West in San Francisco, just one week after shutting down Fillmore East in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fading of a Fantasy | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...were doing in Viet Nam. The State Department's Bundy writes of how Canada's J. Blair Seaborn, a member of the International Control Commission in Viet Nam, could be "revved" up to carry secret messages to Hanoi. McNaughton described the Saigon government as being ''in such a deep funk it may throw in the sponge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pentagon Papers: The Secret War | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Merchant of Funk. San Francisco's ex-brokers seem to have fared best. Four alumni of Merrill Lynch switched early last year from stock trading to stock feeding, forming the Western States Cattle Co. Unlike the whole herd of amateurs who have lost their hides in the tricky cattle business, these men quickly began to round up profits. Daniel Murray, Western's 30-year-old president, was a commodity broker with a wealth of experience working with feed-lot operators and cattle buyers. At his insistence, the firm limited its dealings to California, which has been untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: Busted Brokers Bounce Back | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...bearded and bead-wearing proprietor of Old Stuff, San Francisco's most exclusive junk shop, which he bought in 1969. His inventory runs all the way from a 2nd century Roman glass vial to a vintage 1955 rubber Donald Duck. "My days are enjoyed as a merchant of funk," he boasts. "What I like about it is selling tangibles instead of intangibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: Busted Brokers Bounce Back | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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