Word: old
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month, vs. $700 two years ago; in Chicago, it is $670, vs. $540; and in Los Angeles, $700, vs. $400. "It's a closet," sighs Olga Flores, a Houston social worker, of her $350-a-month one-bedroom apartment, which she found only after a long search. The old rule that renters spend no more than a quarter of their pretax income on rent went out with the Edsel. Explains Marc Lewis, a part owner of Manhattan's Gardner Realty: "They come looking for a one-bedroom and end up taking a studio...
...bedroom East Side Manhattan apartment that cost $50,000 four years ago now goes for $225,000. A modest brownstone in Brooklyn costs $130,000. Fifty-year-old houses in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood of wood-frame bungalows have doubled from $30,000 in 1976 to $60,000. A one-bedroom condo in Boston's scruffy South End costs up to $60,000. Says Ann Wallace, 31, who was looking to buy in the supposedly inexpensive area of south-central Los Angeles: "What we figured would sell for $40,000 is selling for $60,000. What...
...highly regarded head of the nation's eleventh largest industrial corporation, 53-year-old Lyman Hamilton Jr. had a future that appeared to be bright and secure. Yet the affable, mild-mannered president and chief executive officer of ITT had just returned from a three-week swing through the Pacific last week when, with stunning swiftness, the board fired him. The year's most astonishing management shake-up showed just how little job security there...
...18th century, however, the old classicism was replaced by a new aesthetic. The purpose of art, philosophers and poets of the day argued, was not to impose an artificial order on nature, but to reveal, as John Dryden put it, "God's first idea." Mocking such conceits as clipping bushes into the shapes of beasts, Alexander Pope urged that the three arts of poetry, painting and gardening be united. The first to execute Pope's grand vision successfully was Architect, Painter and Landscape Artist William Kent, who began work on Claremont around 1725. Nature abhors a straight line...
...legend had fallen out of general favor back then, and only B-picture makers and their fans still cared about the ineffable Transylvanian count and the strange folkloristic ways of fighting off his baleful influence (garlic on the windowsills, stakes through the heart, that sort of nonsense). Like those old programmers, the new Dracula is shot in the high gothic-romantic tradition, lushly scored and terribly serious about itself and its subject matter. It is also, like the old Hammers, quite overt-if a trifle too discreetly so-in making the connection between Dracula's blood lust and other...