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Word: lane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publicity, the scrawny ex-holdup man stumbled almost incoherently through a 90-minute statement that he had written himself. But as the more skeptical committee members questioned Ray, he turned out to be a patient, polite and cooperative, if unpersuasive witness. By contrast, his attorney, professional Conspiracy Theorist Mark Lane, loaded his frequent objections to the questioning with such sneering sarcasm that he angered even the most sympathetic members of the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Did Not Shoot King | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Trips to and from the airport routinely take longer than the flight. At Los Angeles International, the only entry is a five-lane road so clogged that drivers sometimes spend at least 45 minutes inching toward the parking area, then another 15 to 30 minutes to find a space. At Chicago's O'Hare, the nation's busiest, backed-up traffic frequently extends for blocks; frantic travelers spring from boxed-in cabs and dash, bags in hand, for the terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Crowded Skies | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Long Island, an enraged driver who thought he had been cut off smashed the offending vehicle with an ax. In a lane-changing argument . in Sacramento, a passenger in a pickup truck shot and killed the driver of the other car. After a near collision in Virginia, two drivers tried to settle matters by staging a shootout. "This is getting more common," says a Chicago Police Lieutenant. "Everybody seems to be uptight." Even some men on his own force. In the Windy City last year, two off-duty officers were fired and one was placed on probation for attacking other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Auto Violence | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Instead we have a new version, set in 1911 and entitled The Passion of Dracula, fashioned by Bob Hall and David Richmond, men with more experience in acting and directing than in writing. It opened in New York last September and is still running at the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater. The New York director, Peter Bennett, has repeated his assignment with the newly assembled cast here, as have Allen Cornell (set and lighting) and Jane Tschetter (costumes...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Peers Without Peers and Dracula | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

Animal House contains every college stereotype you can think of, from the frigid WASP princess who takes her rubber gloves along on jaunts to lover's lane to the self-styled Casanovas, who try endlessly to perfect their pick up routines. All of them take their lumps at least once, with almost everyone getting it or dishing it out in the screamingly funny, bangup ending...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: College the Way It Should Have Been | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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