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Word: lookingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retail sales were up a strong 2% in November on top of October's 1.3% rise, and the consumer is attacking his holiday shopping with gusto. Christmas sales are flat in many Midwest areas, but in Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Beverly Hills, retailers report sales well ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spending for a Rainy Day | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Scooter's curtain-time alert is for the flesh-and-blood human being who is the weekly guest star: Raquel Welch, for instance, looking scholarly in spectacles as she practices Shakespeare. Scooter guesses that she has decided to change her image, and he says that this is fine; she doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

She is also greedy for Kermit, and once, under the pretext of doing a wedding skit, she managed to maneuver him in front of a fully loaded preacher (he escaped the pit of matrimony by the desperate stratagem of summoning Lew Zealand, who had been hanging around backstage waiting for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

One morning on the set of The Muppet Movie, Oz stood among the camera cables, waiting to do a shot with Henson/Kermit. He considered Miss Piggy's psyche: "She's had her consciousness raised, but she still likes diamonds. She's a very '50s lady, and that's part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Henson is clearly a gifted businessman, and on the point of becoming a very wealthy one, but he is secretive as a nesting hen when asked to talk figures. The Muppet Show, considered separately, is listed on the books as making no profit, in part because Henson keeps putting money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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