Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Max Fleischer, 89, dean of movie cartoonists, who in the '20s and '30s brought to the screen Popeye the Sailor, Betty Boop and the "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon series; in Los Angeles. Fleischer's first animated feature, made in 1917, took a year to create and ran less than one minute. During the next two decades he acquired more than two dozen patents for his technical production innovations, which helped make animated cartoons a major part of the movie industry...
...land is harsh, the people poor and desperate. In the early 1850s a group of Swedes from the province of Smaland pack their few belongings and emigrate to America in hope of a better life. There, Karl Oskar (Max von Sydow) stakes out a fine farm for himself, his wife (Liv Ullman) and family in the Minnesota woods...
...break his own contract with Boni & Liveright, Anderson's publisher, and go to Scribners. The firm sided with Anderson, and released Hemingway from his contract. Scribners got Torrents and the following year The Sun Also Rises. Anderson had the last word however. "It might have been humorous had Max Beerbohm condensed it to twelve pages," he said-and he was right. ·Martha Duffy
...gloss of commercial development over the Square. Already--a giant craft and specialty mall, nested on nearly half a block parallel with Holyoke Center, is half complete. Nearly 40 small businesses have been expelled by soaring rents and the commercial muscle of concessions like McDonald's and Baskin Robbins. Max Wasserman, the most innovative and prosperous of the Harvard Square landlords, has extensively remodeled more than a score of his properties. All developers expect the JFK center to energize the Square's economy in a quantum jump...
...draw enough advertising to earn an eventual profit; airline passengers, after all, tend to be affluent people with sophisticated buying tastes. But they realized that first they had to offer passengers something more interesting than the traditional public-relations puffery. Accordingly, the Caldwells commissioned artists such as Peter Max and Alexander Calder to paint covers and other art work that by now has won more than 30 art awards, and got name authors like James Michener, Pearl Buck and Nathaniel Benchly to write for them. Recent issues have roamed over such diverse topics as American Indian law, city planning...