Word: jam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...
CARPENTER CENTER EXHIBITION HALL. Form From Nature. Dec. 12-Jam. 30, 1-6 p.m. daily, closed Mondays...
...bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds. "Joy to the World" Wraps a story of Christmas loneliness around the theme of the original holiday carol; Simon sings of his missing lover: "Away in a manger in some hotel she lays her head. The carolers are gone...
...Nixon Administration's eagerness to help U.S. maritime industries (TIME, Oct. 23) has led to an unforeseen irony: it is contributing to a massive jam-up at U.S. ports of wheat destined for Russia. Only about 10% of the 400 million bushels of wheat scheduled to be sent to the Soviet Union by next June have left the U.S. Some 27 million bushels of grain are crammed into storage elevators in Houston alone, waiting for ships to carry them...
...million private cars, including even French-made Simcas as well as Czechoslovakia's own Skoda, jam the streets and roads of this small nation of 14 million people. Restaurants are packed with Czechoslovak and foreign tourists, swigging Pilsen beer and devouring pork-and fruit-filled dumplings. Perhaps as a result, the Czechoslovaks are now on a physical-fitness kick. One Prague sporting-goods store is doing a thriving business in exercise machines...