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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burt feels he's a "prisoner of his big-screen, good-ole-boy image?" Doesn't he realize we love it? If I were Burt, I wouldn't mess with a sure thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1978 | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...nation, but most actively in Southern California, the fastness of fast food. Sometimes posing as legitimate grease collectors, they have cut chains placed on the outdoor grease barrels, smashed through protective iron gates, and driven over chain fences. Police are not doing much about cleaning up the grease mess. Says Alan Cohen, president of the Reliable Grease Co.: "The police tell us they've got the Los Angeles Strangler to worry about." Besides, unless the criminals were caught in the act, they would prove difficult to prosecute. Asks one police official: "How do you identify hot grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Glory of Grease | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...underdog going into the Easterns," Estey said yesterday, adding "My skating was a mess this fall because of the way my schedule was set up and also because I wasn't getting enough sleep...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Freshmen Estey Skates His Way To The National Championship | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

...movie versions of great poetic dramas, nervous directors often move their cameras too much, nor enough, or at the wrong times, and the result is that visual and verbal elements constantly elbow each other aside, yielding neither great drama nor great film, but a tentative mess with little emotional force of its own. It is highly significant that perhaps the fullest realization of Shakespeare on film, Akira Kurosawa's Castle of the Spider's Web (Macbeth), is in Japanese...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Far-Out Quasars | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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