Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oldenburg, it was feared, might impair the playland's image as "a family-oriented operation." Fortunately, the Gemini company (TIME, Jan. 18) stepped in to sponsor the icebag. Puffing and rearing to its full 18-ft. height like some cross between Mount Fuji, a tomato and a dinosaur, it has turned out to be one of the key works in Oldenburg's brilliant career...
...narrowly defining the reach of some Warren Court principles, the new majority may have rendered them virtually inoperative. At the height of Southern civil rights activism in 1965, for example, the Warren Court fashioned the so-called Dombrowski rule, which greatly increased the power of three-judge federal courts to halt allegedly unfair state prosecutions. This term the Burger Court rolled Dombrowski back, barring federal interference except in cases of a prosecutor's blatant bad faith or harassment, or when a state law is "flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph...
Died. Joe E. Lewis, 69, carousing king of nightclub comics; of complications from diabetes; in Manhattan. Lewis was of comedy's Drinking School ("How long can I go on telling jokes and drinking? I can see the handwriting on the floor right now"). At the height of what he called "the Great Drought" (Prohibition), he was earning $650 a week performing in a mob-owned Chicago speakeasy. In 1927 he switched to a rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage...
...this height, I leaned over and looked at a sky I had never seen, and may never see again. Cobalt blue at the edge of my sight, deepening and darkening as my eyes slid upward. No clouds here, no mist or haze. Cruising at Mach 2, ten miles above the earth, the plane probably has less vibration than a normal jet and the same interior noise level. The Concorde is narrow and somewhat claustrophobic, which may make it uncomfortable for some. But for me that feeling paled before the mind-boggling way in which it shrank the world...
...frustration of the ghettos is as deep or deeper now than it was at the height of the riot season several years ago. Some explosions seem almost certain. Perhaps they will not be on the scale of Watts or Newark, but they may well be the nastiest since...