Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lemmings. He in turn eventually brought along Radner and Harold Ramis (another Animal House co-screenwriter). Then counter-raiding began. For Saturday Night Live, TV Producer Lome Michaels hired away half the cast of Lemmings' sequel, The National Lampoon Show. When Belushi departed, Simmons replaced him with Meat Loaf, then an obscure rock singer...
...Angeles County, a landlords' organization. He devotes hours to unearthing new details supporting his case for lower taxes: he has determined, for instance, that the $8,000 sticker price on his Thunderbird includes some $4,500 of taxes and that 116 different taxes are levied on a loaf of bread...
Suddenly an old woman says, "He's here," and in strides a thin, bearded priest wearing the black beret and the worn, ill-fitting country cleric's suit that are his trademarks. The priest laughs and shakes hands with everyone. After he celebrates Mass, with a loaf of bread fetched hurriedly from the kitchen, there is a steak-and-rice lunch for 200. Wealthy bankers are squeezed in at the tables next to ex-convicts and recovered alcoholics...
...most of their lives," coped gracefully with primitive life. Building the communal hut took more than two months. Using ancient tools, the group chopped wood for 72 rafters, fashioned a conical thatched roof and sides out of wattle (interwoven hazel branches) and daub (mud and animal hair). Making a loaf of bread the Celtic way took nearly a day. Fashioning clay storage pots took longer, and the early pottery tended to crack over the fire-until the novices got the hang of their craft. Says Helen Elphick: "We were all very frustrated...
...world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide...