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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONCE UPON A TIME there was a small country that many Americans knew very well for many years. Thousands lived, played and fought there. Especially fought there. After a while they also lost the fight and went home in a huff. Since then, the United States hasn't been able to recognize the country...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: If Not Now, When? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Geometrizing and Perceptualizing: Products of Basic Design, William S. Huff, SUNY- Buffalo, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: Oct. 12-Oct. 18 | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...others do collapse, the Royals' professional hot dog waits in the bullpen: Al Hrabosky, known as the "Mad Hungarian," who is fond of stepping theatrically off the back of the mound to huff and puff himself up to what he deems his "rage point." So far this year, the enraged Hrabosky has saved 20 games that were slipping away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Can Nice Guys Finish First? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...found this film a revelation. It was intended as a revelation, and by rights the book of Paddy ought to take its place beside those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--except that Paddy suggests a cross between Puritan windbag Jonathan Edwards and Jerry Lewis. His characters pontificate and huff and puff and the whole thing is so shrill, pretentious and heavy-handed (not to mention boring) that it won Paddy an Oscar for his writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet was the wrong director for Paddy's script--which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That's Entertainment? | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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