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Word: moods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fundamental failure of Chris Healey's production of The Pelican lies in its inability to immerse the audience in the mood and theme to the point where plot would become irrelevant and melodrama less of a hazard. Unhappily, the visual and aural effects through which Strindberg intended to achieve this are unsuccessful. Admittedly, conditions in the Ex don't make things any easier. The not-so-mysterious rocking chair rocks frantically and becomes at first funny, then ridiculous; a letter leaps, rather than flutters, off a table; vitally important silences and pauses are mercilessly trampled over. Delicate changes of mood...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Suffocating Nightmares | 2/21/1975 | See Source »

...million a year. Then the Senate passed the same bill by a lopsided vote of 76 to 8. The cost of the controversial program has zoomed from about half a billion in 1970 to a projected $4 billion in 1975. But neither Democrats nor most Republicans were in a mood to raise the price of food for the underprivileged and unemployed in a recession year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECESSION: The Growing Specter of Unemployment | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...think the Israeli mood is more hawkish than ever before," says Olmert. "The Israeli people are peaceloving, but they feel they are left without a choice...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Israel's Politics of War and Peace | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

...wing onto their benches as the audience began scuffing into the theatre. Tapping their feet nervously and lighting each other's cigarettes, they exchanged a few verbal footnotes about the show's format before Patrick went back out to begin an improvised medley, setting an appropriate light, crisp mood...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Like King Tut, Only Alive | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

Swimming Pool. Atlanta Chevrolet Dealer Doug McCurdy is getting browsers in a buying mood by letting them work off frustrations by taking a sledgehammer to an old Mercury emblazoned with the words INFLATION, RECESSION, GLOOM, DOOM. In Mount Vernon, Ohio, Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Jack Ostrander has started accepting cattle from local farmers as part of a trade-in deal on new cars. Ostrander pays 65? per Ib. for steers or heifers, which he ships to his farm for resale later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Detroit's Gamble to Get Rolling Again | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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