Word: hock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEWITT: The Deer Hunter. Well, first off, five bucks for a movie is an outrage--although you guys'll have to pay $25 to get your car out of hock--and frankly. I almost didn't go. Dolby or no Dolby. That music--Christ--I still have a headache. And the gun shots--every time they blew up a face I hit the roof. It was very well filmed. Vilmos Zsigmond is a genius. Well edited. Those weren't Pennsylvania mountains, though. Man, it was elaborately bogus--the choral music in the mountains, the Russian Orthodox Church that looked like...
...well as the President, and Congress this year has appropriated only $120 million, or a little more than a fifth of what Carnegie II eventually wants. Says he: "To have a first-rate, fearless system, including news and public affairs programming, you have to take people out of political hock...
Pawn the Library. Desperate to meet a payroll, the University of Miami once hocked $1 million worth of library books to Miami's Pan American Bank in order to secure a $400,000 short-term loan. Fortunately, that was some years ago, and today the library is safely out of hock...
Most of the new action by card firms is in a long-somnolent field: traveler's checks. American Express has about 65% of the world market, despite recently heating competition. But the check business, argues Visa International President Lee W. Hock, "has changed very little in the past 50 years. It is ripe for innovation...
...basically the same sad club of a year ago, and rumors are that Blacman will hock his magic wand for a couple of blue-chip recruits. Sophomore Dick Clasby, namesake of Harvard's halfback star of the fifties, could...