Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic problem for most people is the price of food. Says Judy Carey of Little Rock, Ark.: "For one thing, I quit buying ground beef. The junk food had to go. And we're using leftovers wherever we can. Yesterday we had a chefs salad for dinner. Sunday it was a casserole because we can get two meals out of it." Philadelphia Quality Control Technician Leo Valz has tired of supplying expensive snacks for his three children. Solution: do-it-yourself pizzas costing $16 for 24 shells, a big can of tomato sauce and a big bag of cheese. Says...
...that saved me because the walls fell in." Cindy Trott, 22, fled to a science building at Midwestern State University for safety. Said she: "It didn't look like a tornado until it got up close to you. Then you could see all the lumber and junk swirling around, and we were panicked." When the storm passed, she hurried to her family's home on the city's densely populated southwest side. It was leveled, along with some 2,000 other houses in the city...
Ordinarily, the Academy Awards are a nice, long evening's wallow in the junk culture; you send out for Chinese food or pizza, make popcorn, keep score, watch for the awful fashions and the stilted soliloquies of acceptance. But this year, beneath the usual wisecracks and show business sentimentality, there was more interesting drama. Jane Fonda, anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave...
...hors d'oeuvres at Hollywood parties. But then Spielberg and his live-in companion for the past three years, Actress Amy Irving (Voices), hardly ever go out. Most of the time they stay in their house in Coldwater Canyon, and when they do eat out, they like ordinary junk food. Spielberg turns up his nose at "quality pizza," for example. "I like pizza that curls at the edge like Aladdin's shoes...
Sophomore Don Pompan, whose hard, driving ground strokes seemed unaffected by the gale force, and senior Andy Chaikovsky, who mastered the wind with an assortment of junk shots that would make Luis Tiant proud, carried the day for the Crimson by winning their singles decisively and combining for a straight-set win at first doubles...