Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, second-hand equipment, once regarded as throwaway junk, is now attracting premium prices. New drilling pipe sells for $10.50 per ft. when available; when it is not, wildcatters often settle for used pipe supplied by oilfield hustlers at $20 per ft. "They charge an arm and a leg," complains Walter Bates, owner of a well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything...
...Gene Nelson attempt to hoof and puff and blow the house down; they only succeed in underlining the show's decrepitude. Nor can Michael Kidd's manic drill-sergeant direction hide the melancholy truth that because a thing is old does not mean it is an antique; junk is junk...
...terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters to salvage the tobacco for resale, while the boy stays alive scrounging for junk in sewers. A happy ending eventually sets in but not before the forces of meanness and darkness, not to say evil, seem overwhelming, and the author proves once again that she writes about children in distress better than anyone since Dickens...
Feiffer: They don't that much. I watch a lot of junk and I read a lot of junk. Newspapers and books feed it more because they help give me some longer range vision. But news programs do give me ideas. Watching Ford address the farmers, I could get 20 cartoons. Like the one I just did with Bernard and the plateful of bullets and his mother telling him to bite the bullets slowly and not to eat them too fast...
Inflation is liberating the suburbs. So argues City University of New York Sociologist David Caplovitz. With residents forming car pools and baby-sitting pools, entertaining more at home and happily exchanging useful junk at garage sales, he says, "keeping up with the Joneses is gone, and a lifeboat camaraderie has taken its place." Fascinated by this development, Caplovitz is applying for a federal grant to study a surprisingly neglected subject-the hidden psychological side of inflation...