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Word: paperbacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once you've gotten your textbooks, however, you'll find that the Coop also has an excellent paperback department on the second floor of the annex, and a hardback department with all the bestsellers- Love Story, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( but were afraid to ask )- on the first floor. You get the same rebate deal if you join...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...other paperback stores are stars. Paperback Booksmith (37a Brattle St.) is open 24 hours a day for those dark nights of the soul when nothing but a book will still the pain. For these times, PB has the best science-fiction selection around, and a lot of good and hard-to-get books on other subjects. The staff is also very cool, and they won't case you out if you spend four hours making up your mind whether you want to buy anything...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Harvard Bookstore (124 Mass Ave.) is also good, especially for paperback fiction books. They have second-hand textbooks, and at the end of the summer you can sell them yours for pretty good prices...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Embassy Pictures Corp. for $4,500,000. And yet, and yet, at that palmy time ?was it only the day before yesterday? ?there was a reason offered for Mike's acidulous tongue and his lofty penthouse picture of society. It was the standard one, heavily merchandised by paperback Freudians: an unhappy childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some are More Yossarian than Others | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

Bang-Zone. Like Proxmire, ecologists are concerned about the potential threat of the SST to the environment. Many of their misgivings are documented in the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, a hot-selling (150,000 copies to date) paperback edited by William Shurcliff, director of a pressure group called the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. The Handbook contends that a single SST, flying from New York to California, would leave a "bang-zone" 50 miles wide by 2,000 miles long. But some tests indicate that this bang at SST's operational height of 60,000 ft. will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: SST: Boon or Boom-Doggie? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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