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Word: low (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magic is back again, and in full force. Laetrile cures cancer, acupuncture is useful for deafness and low-back pain, vitamins are good for anything, and meditation, yoga, dancing, biofeedback, and shouting one another down in crowded rooms over weekends are specifics for the human condition. Running, a good thing to be doing for its own sake, has acquired the medicinal value formerly attributed to rare herbs from Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpts | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces the 66° 30 min. latitude of the Arctic Circle. Then the road continues into the Northwest Territories, meets the Peel and Mackenzie rivers, and heads deep into the low, flat, piney Mackenzie Delta until at last it reaches Inuvik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Throughways to the Arctic | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual meeting last Tuesday. Referring to "the very low ratings of NBC programs over the past month to month and a half," RCA President and Chief Executive Edgar H. Griffiths reversed a more optimistic earlier estimate and declared: "Profit for NBC will be substantially below that of the prior year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Struggling to Leave the Cellar | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Alceste and Célimène, François Beaulieu and Béatrice Agenin project modern, realistic feeling at the expense of classical eloquence. During his tirades against mankind, Beaulieu runs through the Alexandrines and casts caesuras to the winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Fool for Truth | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...unreasonably low seventh seed, the heavies drew a heat with Yale and Dartmouth, both of which had beaten the squad earlier in the season. The heavies handled the Big Green easily, however, cruising to second behind Yale with more than a length to spare...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, SPEACIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Heavyweights Stroke to Third in Sprints | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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