Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive, says Beller. The fact is her cravings for food and fun exist simultaneously. Now that Beller has established that fat is where it's at, all those chubbies on starvation diets can relax and say, with John Dryden's Maiden Queen, "I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty...
...week, showed a slight decline. The nation's trade deficit will probably be reduced this year to around $3 billion, from $4 billion in 1976, and the franc has stabilized at about 4.86 to the dollar. On the other hand, output of goods and services is likely to grow only 3%, v. an original forecast from Barre...
...there are said to be other cases pending. At week's end the Home Minister was confiding that he fully expected to arrest Mrs. Gandhi again. But next time he had better strike hard at the erstwhile empress, or else the myth of her invincibility will continue to grow...
...During the film's first and better half, Bertolucci lyrically propels his heroes through the rituals of young manhood: they discover the meaning of sex and money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually their isolated agrarian community becomes a microcosm of a nation battered by Fascist, socialist and industrial revolutions...
SLEEPY SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...