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Word: jazzing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person gets an ulcer here, it's because of his diet and drinking, not worry," says Ben Barry, 48, who has lived on Majuro since 1969. "This is an alcoholic's paradise. Where else can you get Black Label for 800 and listen to good jazz while you drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Paradise with Rough Edges | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Just as New Orleans hit upon jazz, the only unique American contribution to art, and hit upon it almost by accident and despite itself, it could also hit upon the way out of the hell which has overtaken the American city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...course, primarily a sports palace, and team owners love the place. Barry Mendelson, 34, New York-born executive vice president of the Jazz, points out that "there was no real longtime legacy of pro basketball in the South." Yet the club has broken N.B.A. attendance records five times. The football Saints, whose mundane performance on the field is partially offset by their spectacular half-time shows, are also incurable domophiles. and have a ten-year lease on the Poydras palazzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Rosalynn has handed out her 200 Polish-Pride coloring books to the kids of Warsaw and some jazz tapes to the city's hep older citizens. The Shah of Iran has been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Into the Wild Blue Yonder | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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