Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fill their tanks for the haul back home. Memorial Day could mark the point when the gasoline shortage of 1979 starts to hurt nationwide-and when Americans finally realize that the nation's growing addiction to undependable supplies of foreign oil can really jeopardize its prodigal way of life. And although President Carter asked for standby authority to impose gas rationing, Congress last week rejected his proposal. The vote, a stunning defeat for Carter, reflected all too accurately a national unwillingness to face the facts about energy if doing so would mean any change in cherished habits. It left...
...Ordeal by Scandal Jeremy Thorpe, facing possible life sentence, goes on trial
Thorpe and three erstwhile associates -former Liberal Party Deputy Treasurer David Holmes, 48, Businessmen John Le Mesurier, 47, and George Deakin, 39 -face possible life sentences on charges of plotting the murder of a former male model, Norman Scott, 39, in order to prevent him from publicly claiming that he had had a three-year homosexual liaison with Thorpe in the 1960s. Introduced into testimony last week, for example, were two letters Thorpe had written to Scott on House of Commons stationery; he called Scott by such endearments as "Bunnies," and signed "Yours affectionately, Jeremy -P.S. I miss...
...State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer it to the risk of brutality and oppression in Iran...
...tiresome Mo (Theresa Russell) seems considerably less complex than the title characters of Laverne and Shirley. Nonetheless, Greenberg siphons all of Watergate through this couple, and, worse still, he dramatizes the banalities of their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...