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Word: jonesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The truck picks up speed to 115 m.p.h. along a telephone service road. The pitted road seems almost smooth at this speed. Evans knows the route well. After six "pre-runs," he is ready for the angle of every curve. With $60,000 invested in a single-seat Blazer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 115-m.p.h. Madness | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

ARTHUR RACKHAM; DULAC; THE ENGLISH DREAMERS; THE CHRISTMAS BOOK; TEMPTATION. Edited by David Larkin. Bantam Books. $5.95 each. With tireless research and unfailing taste, Editor David Larkin has assembled this striking series of low-priced museums without walls. Arthur Rackham and Dulac celebrate the greatest book illustrators of the Edwardian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gift Books | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

In President Ford's present Cabinet, the two outstanding intellects are probably Henry Kissinger and Attorney General Edward Levi, former president of the University of Chicago. Both are Jewish, which might or might not still be a barrier to the presidency. Kissinger, despite his current troubles with Congress, remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: New Places to Look for Presidents | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

GUARDS. Ken Jones, Arkansas State, 6 ft. 5 in., 255 lbs.; and Joe Devlin, Iowa, 6 ft. 5 in., 277 lbs. Jones is the kind of guard the late Vince Lombardi would have admired: with 4.8 speed in the 40-yd. dash, he pulls out swiftly ahead of his running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: OFFENSE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

FOURTH PARADOX: Having made what amounts to an art-film spectacle-something few directors since Griffith and Eisenstein have brought off-Kubrick now requires that his backers go out and sell the damned thing. Because of distribution and promotion costs, the film must gross at least $30 million to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KUBRICK'S GRANDEST GAMBLE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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