Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else seemed to want, and so, as has become his habit, Kansas Senator Robert Dole reached for it. Easily the Senate's most ambitious and aggressive freshman, Dole, 47, emerged last week as President Nixon's latest choice for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee; he is expected to be confirmed this week. At least two other men, Bryce Harlow and Donald Rumsfeld, had declined the position since late November, when Nixon announced that he would appoint the present chairman, Maryland Congressman Rogers Morton, as Secretary of the Interior...
...together, last year's congressional actions strengthen the ties that bind Government and business together. With securities insurance added to long-existing mortgage and bank deposit insurance, Washington's total financial liability in a serious economic slump could conceivably reach an astronomical figure. Still, despite its controversial habit of subsidizing transportation, housing, farming and shipping, Congress so far shows little inclination to rescue individual companies except to preserve vital national services. Lawmakers last year made no move to bail out film makers, conglomerates or airlines...
Still, the Crimson has an unfortunate habit of playing to the level of their opposition. Penn teams traditionally love nothing better than beating Harvard, and the Quakers will be skating hard in their new multi-million dollar rink before a large, highly partisan crowd...
...them the gift of radical vision and strong impulses to alter the status quo. On the other hand, Scorpios-ruled by Pluto and Mars-were drawn to private, clandestine lives. Like the stinging arachnid of their sign, some could be dangerous in a hellish way. Scorpio had a habit of seeking warmth in the boots of bigger men. The safariing Hemingway, a Cancer, would rarely forget to shake his out in the morning...
Trash. Paul Morrissey wrote and filmed this surprisingly short, well-edited and well-shot depression comedy for the Andy Warhol factory. Joe Dallesandro plays a heroin addict whose habit interferes with his sex life and Holly Woodlawn is his transvestite girl-next-door. For all its graphic sex and language, Trash maintains a point of view that is decidedly old-fashioned, morally speaking. As a result, this movie is a most original and affecting examination of the rapprochement of the Old America...