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Word: jon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volley of legal actions between Bruce and his former manager kept Springsteen effectively off course for more than a year after the release of his galvanic 1975 album Born to Run. Once he and Producer Jon Landau began recording again in the spring of 1977, it took him ten months, and upwards of 30 songs, to come up with Darkness on the Edge of Town, which headed straight for the Top Ten after its release in June. It has been there ever since, setting up a long-term residence and lending a little class to that generally tacky neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cruising Through the Darkness | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Coming Home--This is a fairly decent film about a Vietnam veteran (Jon Voigt) who comes home, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and then falls in love with Jane Fonda, while her husband Bruce Stern has only just departed for Asia himself. The only drawbacks in this movie are that its points are not made very subtly, but rather clobber you over the head with theories on what that war was all about, in case you don't know already...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM: Bruce, The Band and Poonies | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

Most sellers appear to do well, though a few earn barely enough to cover rental charges. Mrs. Priscilla Bandzin of Boston routinely sells at one market what she earlier bought at another; last New Year's Day she cleared $165. Jon Watson supplements his income as an assistant professor at the University of Houston by hawking plants from his van and earns $300 to $600 a weekend. Some dealers have become increasingly professional, jumping from markets in the Northeast in spring and summer to those in the South in winter. At the San Jose market, the more enterprising sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...benefit that each of us actually put, or at least attempt to put, some worth, some value in our lives and in our world, and that each of us not just sit and shoot the day, "with the sun on the shoulders and cold drink in hand." Jon Spinello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing the Point? | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...occasionally "approached by individuals and groups in and outside of the entertainment business whose motives and goals he is convinced are not in the best interests of this country." If the FBI ever needed his services, the memo reported, it could reach him under the pseudonym of Col. Jon Burrows, 3764 Highway 51 South, Memphis, Tenn. Telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: G-Man Blues | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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