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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King a hesitant afterthought. And perhaps somebody told Carter he should visit Lynn to endorse the Democratic ticket partly as a favor to U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), whose son Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III, rests as King's hesitant running mate, and partly for Tsongas...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Said the Peanut to the King | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Wife, the folk tale about the man who releases his magic catch after the fish promises to grant his wishes. In the traditional version, the fisherman's wife, Hsebill, ruins good fortune with her greed. In Grasss ich-theology, the ageless narrator tells his equally timeless mate Ilsebill how he threw the fish back into the Baltic after it had agreed to bring him knowledge of the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...sloganeering of past elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A New York State of Mind | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...with a new protective helmet, Polillo's over-ripe melon has avoided further battering and his statistics have benefitted as a result. Through the first four games Ralph has rushed for a team-leading 175 yards and caugt 7 passes for another 134 yards, to rank second behind backfield mate Paul Connors...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Polillio: Comet Among Stars | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

From the first gorgeously modeled shot of Billy stripped before his captors to the hazy sequence of him and a friend doing yoga exercises behind bars (so reminiscent of the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love), to the final farewell kiss Billy bestows on yet another mate before his escape, we are in the possession of a perverse romanticism, or should one say romantic perversity? And what can one say about the casting of a young actor named Brad Davis in the leading role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Trip | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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