Word: marinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jump shots, Smith darting through the defense to score on lay-ups and Heard outmus-cling opponents to grab rebounds, the Braves are averaging 111.6 points a game-the best offensive record in the league. (Statistically, they rank near the bottom of the league, allowing 111 points.) Jack Marin, one of the best shooters in the game, can come off the bench to pour a dozen points through the hoop before the opposition realizes that he's on the court...
...most successful of the rock comics are Richard ("Cheech") Marin, 27, and Tommy Chong, 33, an energetic Chicano-Chinese duo whose freakish cast of characterizations includes Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, and Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far, and their newest, Los Cochinos, jumped onto the pop charts at 22, a feat usually accomplished only by top rockers. But several others are stalking comedy's new-found rock audience in their wake...
When a severe water shortage started in Marin County outside San Francisco four years ago, more and more families began to consider moving deeper into the exurbs. Many of them chose Petaluma, a pleasant town of 30,000 just up High...
Both magazines cater to the "new liberated woman of the seventies." Playgirl's editor Marin Scott Milam describes her readers as "intelligent, practical, honest; women who are comfortable with their sexuality who want to know more about everything." Both attempt to market a general interest magazine with erotic overtones. Both have the usual gossip, fashion, fiction, travel, and "how-to" sections. Depending on the magazine, the erotic overtones are either sprinkled lightly in one or two places (Playgirl) or squarely anchored to most articles (Viva...
Recently these architectural anarchists have been at work putting up hundreds of houses from Oregon to New Mexico. They are most active in the exurbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where counterculture instincts still bear strange fruit. In Marin County, scores of rebels-cum-saw ignore building codes, hoping that inspectors will ignore them. Attempting to live quietly ever after with their violations, the builders-many of them dropouts from traditional professions-adopt linguistic camouflage. An illegal third story in a tower, for instance, is termed a "storage shelf rather than a bedroom...