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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash for the cast and crew at a Chicago disco. Which points up another advantage of attracting film makers: besides being good business, hanging out with movie people is a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Heartland, with Cameras | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy, which now seems dead. More generally, Tom Dernburg, chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, says: "I certainly take their work seriously. A lot of it is very high quality." Winning such respect from moderate and liberal Democrats is undoubtedly the institute's biggest success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Other Think Tank | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

With one house, a crumbling blacksmith shop, a dance hall and a combination post office-saloon, Luckenbach belongs on an MGM back lot. Its rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Heart of Honky-Tonk Rock | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...slow, heavy field" said Crimson general Joe Restic. "We didn't look like that the first day of practice. Condition can do a lot of things--I think of Cornell last year...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: One Down, Eight to Go: Harvard 21, Columbia 7 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Another Gay Head resident says "They make a lot of noise about their 'Indianness', but they seem to me to be grasping at ethnic straws. They're living with white girls, and have intermarried extensively...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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