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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXCEPT UNDER the most felicitious circumstances, it nearly always happens that ensembles of the genre piano trio readily become a battle of bowed and percussive strings. To begin with, one rarely hears a well-established trio--compositions of this type are more frequently presented by three soloistic virtuosi who, for...

Author: By Stephen E. Hefling, | Title: Discordant Trios | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

Czechoslovakia is no longer regarded as a danger. The border with China is relatively dormant. Viet Nam, despite the mining of Haiphong, is being downplayed by the Soviet leadership. The byword is realism; the new necessity is to improve conditions at home. One hears it privately from friends and colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A View of Moscow: Then and Now | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

He grins even after he has been released from Bellevue, where he was committed after trying to strangle the superintendent of his apartment building. He was not, it seems, lodging a complaint about vermin and bad plumbing. His rage remains unexplained, and Norah, who has taken him in, is too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Spirits | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Ruby, bored with her husband and their lecherous, nosy neighbor, puts on a dress one evening and takes off in her schoolbus for a bit of fun. At the local nightclub she hears Earl Tibbits, a slick, cheap singer played with just the right sliminess by Danny Kosow. She waits...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Ruby Ha Ha | 5/24/1972 | See Source »

They are all dead behind the eyes, but vividly, wincingly alive in the theater. Playwright Jason Miller, 33, whose only previous full-length play, Nobody Hears a Broken Drum, was a quick flop, has chiseled out each role to give it the clean profile of humanity and of pity. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Dust of Glory | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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