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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always watch the Late Show while I'm doing my ironing, ever since I started getting these terrible shooting back pains if I ironed during As the World Turns, just like the pains my older sister used to get before they operated on her varicose veins-anyway, this guy comes on during the Late Show and he's demonstrating the Miracle Vegetronic. You know, the one that slices, dices, cubes, chops, grates, shoestrings and shaves a tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent in my $10.27 plus postage and handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...news organizations have to do this work? Where are the fuzz and the feds when you need them? "I'd never fool with the government," Appleton advises inflamed citizens. "Too slow. By the time they get around to solving a problem, the guy has either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there a guy has a real problem, and maybe I'm his last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...Richard Dreyfuss, Moses Wine is a character of rare vintage. Indeed, it's not too much to say that he is the best, most entertaining figure anyone has managed to invent for an American movie this year. Moses not only is an amusing variant on the classic lonely guy, private-eye character, but Screenwriter Simon, adapting his own novel, also employs him for purposes of wry and rueful social observation. The well-plotted mystery tale quite compassionately reveals how a lot of '60s radicals have signed on with the System that was once thought to be their enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Private Eye Full of Wry | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...need a pope who's a nice guy. Someone you can trust, with a good sense of humor. Peter Gomes is that kind of guy," Denis T. Kennedy '81, co-organizer of the Gomes For Pope Committee, said last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gomes for Pope? | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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