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Word: kissinge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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One chemist thinks that it all began when cavemen licked their neighbors' cheeks for the salt on them. Whatever its primal origins, social kissing seems to be resounding with greater frequency around the nation. Anyone who watched Jimmy Carter's Inaugural receptions would think that the entire capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Some Northerners attribute the new President's demonstrativeness to Southern ways. But an Atlanta public relations woman, Joanna Hanes, declares that "social kissing is more a Northern, sophisticated fad that seems to be moving south." In fact, like the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century, the epidemic of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Perhaps nowhere is kissing more widely and elaborately practiced than in Manhattan, whose nervous system, from SoHo to Sardi's and on uptown, handles an immense traffic of social signals. But social kissing is also rampant in California, usually in the form of a double peck on the cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Taking on the beloved Tchaikovsky classic as one's initial choreographic venture is a bold act even for Baryshnikov. The Nutcracker contains several problems. One challenge is to transform a children's story, based loosely on an E.T.A. Hoffmann fairy tale, into palatable adult fare. More complex still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baryshnikov's New, Bold Nutcracker | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Carter managed to minimize the inevitable awkwardness of his visit to President Gerald Ford, who was still smarting from the first electoral defeat of his career. While waiting for his guest at the south portico of the White House, Ford stood unsmiling and he did not indulge in his customary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TRANSITION: Mr. Carter Comes Acourtin' | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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