Word: hand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
Warner Cable Corp. is testing in Columbus a "two-way" cable system that enables viewers to talk back to their sets by pressing buttons on a hand-held console (price: $10.95). The programs are local news and talk shows on which performers ask questions of the audience. Every seven seconds a master computer scans the 30,000 homes getting the service and tallies how many are pressing a yes and how many a no button; the response totals are flashed on the screen...
...other hand, Hardwick makes full use of the legendary self-destructiveness of Billie Holiday. There is the suggestion of a 1940s acquaintanceship with the great blues singer. Hardwick, the prudent observer, is fascinated by the abandon with which Holiday burned talent and life. There is a tendency to mythologize her excesses and her presence: "The lascivious gardenias, worn like a large, white, beautiful ear, the heavy laugh, marvelous teeth, and the splendid head, archaic, as if washed up from the Aegean...
...Green gave the Crimson a rough time, but attack wing Sue St. Louis had little trouble slipping the Dartmough zone for six tallies. St. Louis tossed in an amazing shot from 20 yards out that caught the goalie sleeping and squeezed into the right-hand corner of the cage...
Raffi, on the other hand, after getting off to a shaky start, found his putting touch on the back nine, which winds through a pine forest upland from the bay. After bogeying four through six. Raffi seemed headed for another bogey on the seventh, a 185-yd. par three that is all sheer carry over the water, when his five-iron tee shot landed in a bunker. He skulled his sand shot but it hit the flagstick and checked up three feet from...