Search Details

Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...have never bothered to make. For example, there is still no inexpensive pill bottle that dispenses one pill at a time and is thus safe from children's tampering. There is no practical pocket-size Braille writer, no simple gas and electricity meter, no well-designed first-aid kit, no cheap hearing aid (though transistor radios using the same basic technology cost only $3.98). He himself had to invent a cloth book his infant daughter might enjoy, complete with bright colors and different textures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Down with Designers? | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...musical numbers by John Kander and Fred Ebb are diluted Kurt Weill and far too numerous. The actors, how ever, are all good. Along with a chorus of sclerotic voluptuaries, Joel Grey as the Kit Kat M.C. puts the cabaret acts across with captivating vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liza: Ja--the Film: Nein | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...central setting is the Kit Kat Club, a sleazy microcosm of Germany in transition. The songs and dances performed there form an ironic counterpoint to the action, which has mainly to do with the mad affairs of Americanborn Sally Bowles (Liza's role), a Kit Kat entertainer, who has dedicated her life to "divine decadence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liza: Ja--the Film: Nein | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

What the hell is this?!," I shouted as I opened the promo kit only to find a plastic army helmet with the words "War is Coming" neatly stenciled across the front. The helmet and other equally ridiculous gimmicks were dreamed up by some under assistant West Coast promo man to announce War's first "solo" album...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: The Ravages of War | 2/12/1972 | See Source »

...played at the spectrum in Philadelphia with Alice Cooper and the Chambers brothers and there were 17,000 13-year-olds there waiting to see Alice Cooper hang himself. The Chambers brothers came out all coked up and ready to go. Then we came out and plunk, I got kit in the head with a roll of toilet paper. Then there were all these kids on reds throwing bottles. This one bottle came down and hit right in front of the band and the next thing I saw was our manager up in the balcony choking shit out of somebody...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next