Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million a year on the paper before the strike, so by not publishing he may merely have been cutting his losses. Additionally, Murdoch's New York magazine and Village Voice picked up a circulation and ad revenue windfall from the strike-Voice ad pages are running about double normal levels-and some of the city's Murdoch-haters believe the man may even have turned a profit from the dispute...
LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal," he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...
...possible sources of humor. The laughs are too easy, too cheap, too shallow--it seems as if they got high one day and wrote up the movie in a couple of hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating huge amounts of food due to "munchies," stoned people in a car swallowing all their drugs to prevent the police from finding the evidence, innumerable puns on the word "shit"--and they are run by you time...
...outlines of an Egyptian-Israeli treaty were determined at Camp David, misunderstandings over the fine print of the accord could still lead to snags and delays. There could be disputes about the precise lines of the initial Israeli military withdrawal in the Sinai or the exact nature of the "normal relations" that both sides have promised to start up after the treaty is signed. Beyond that there is the question of how the Israeli settlements in the Sinai will be dismantled-a potentially explosive domestic issue for Begin's government (see box). It has been taken for granted that...
Despite the lingering tokens of prosperity in Vientiane, Laos as a whole is near bankruptcy. The country's foreign exchange earnings, mostly derived from exports of timber, tin and hydroelectric power, total no more than $15 million annually. In a normal year, the government has to spend that amount to buy the 50,000 tons of rice it needs to supplement Laos' lagging grain production. With practically no industry (except for small soap, match and textile plants), most manufactured articles, from fertilizer to earth-moving equipment, must be imported...