Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris Match called the idea a "new Trafalgar," and reported (probably inaccurately) that $1 billion had flowed out of France toward Switzerland in the one day after the bill was proposed. The powerful Socialist and Communist opposition parties condemned the measure for containing too many loopholes favoring the rich. The Communists have even been acting as defenders of middle-class property-especially over the part of Giscard's proposal that calls for taxes on the sale of vacation homes, the résidences secondaires owned by 14 million...
...campaign degenerated into a mudslinging match, marked by incidents of vandalism, that confused rather than clarified the issue. But the vote could hardly have been more decisive. By a landslide margin of 2 to 1, Californians last week turned down Proposition 15, which might well have had the effect of banning nuclear power plants from the state. The message seemed clear: voters are not terrified by the remote possibility of a deadly nuclear accident, and they believe that atomic power is necessary to meet future demands for electricity...
...admits to having some affairs-no more significant to him, he says, than a cigarette or a drink-and suggests that she might take casual pleasure in such shenanigans. Mr. Wonderful! He is clearly convinced that his wife could not possibly find anyone with wit and style to match...
Rock has its kings and queens, with royal egos to match, but it does not have many who are willing to say, as Guitarist Roy Buchanan does, "Probably the reason I never made it big was because I didn't care whether I made it big." If there is room in rock for a shy, devout, balding man of 36, Buchanan may make it big in spite of himself...
...movie gives evidence of having been heavily edited, probably in a Cuisinart. A lot of individual shots do not match. Once in a while, someone breaks into song, suggesting that The Blue Bird may once have been a musical. Director George Cukor is one of the most urbane American film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp...