Word: lating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tampering. The tide of visitors keeps a constant daily crowd of 300 to 500 people on hand from dawn until late evening, reducing the Bass's backyard to dust and littering it with Polaroid film waste. Mrs. Bass, though, rejoices that the vision has brought her 78-year-old husband back to churchgoing. She is undisturbed by the variety of reported visions ("Everyone's seeing what they need") and by the relic hunters who tore her fig tree apart for souvenirs and crushed what was left of it. ("Maybe the Lord intended for them to take it home...
...University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will give out. Yet instead of giving up and going home, late comers succumb to an ersatz optimism and delude themselves into thinking that the line is shorter than it really...
...moviegoers have been peeking at bodies ever since Theda Bara bared her royal nipples in 1917 in Cleopatra. Still, inhibited by production codes and the restriction imposed by such influential bodies as the National Legion of Decency, American moviemakers generally avoided total nudity and explicitly erotic situations until the late 1950s, when successful films like Room at the Top and Never on Sunday showed that seals of approval had become an anachronism. Today, assured of virtual immunity against seizure and prosecution, movie exhibitors and importers have no qualms about films that would have been cut or confiscated a few years...
After wartime service with Stars and Stripes, Rooney spent the late 1940s freelance writing for books and magazines but turned to radio and TV when he discovered that he could not make a predictable living in print. He was concocting material for Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore and others when CBS News President Fred Friendly in 1964 hired him away from show...
Carl Ally Inc. started a campaign late last year for Northeast Airlines, using the slogan"Northeast addresses itself to the whole man." Ads showed a beaming passenger, comfortably pil lowed and covered with furry blanket, addressing himself to martini, steak and a copy of Realties. In April, Gehnrich Associates kicked off a campaign for RCA Global Communications, aiming to get across the point that a businessman can often save himself an over seas trip by sending a telex message instead. Headline on the RCA ads: "Why send the whole man overseas just to give someone a piece of his mind...