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Word: perfect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived, docile and sociable. They do not have to be licensed, neutered or inoculated. They make no noise and they don't bite. To many Americans who have shelled out up to $3.50 each for the critters, the tropical hermit crab (Coenobita Clypeatus) is by any measure the perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Feeling Crabby? | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...best viewer working in television today. Silverman, 39, does not have to pause and think what 60 million viewers will want to see: he knows, or usually knows, because he is one of them. His likes are theirs, and his dislikes are theirs. He was born with perfect pitch for American pop TV taste. "He's the man with the golden gut," says Bonny Dore, a former ABC director of variety shows. "He knows instinctively what works and what doesn't." From Irwin Segelstein, Silverman's counterpart at NBC, comes similar and perhaps, given the source, more telling praise. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Golden Gut | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...then much of the Panamanian left (as well as the right) is in exile. But many Panamanians, perhaps unrealistically, look to the treaty to cure many of their national ills?including a zero growth rate. Says Nicolas Ardito Barletta, Minister of Planning and Economic Policy: "This will create a perfect situation for a lasting boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ceding the Canal-Slowly | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...admire Chris Evert's consistency and dedication. She makes a perfect cross-court smash. The picture flickers. Evert reappears selling a brand of sneakers. Damn, I think, why do they have to package Evert? But the truth is that the package and person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Joy of Deprogramming Sport | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...uniformed doorman. "We are not into sacrifice, martyrdom," he has written. Rubin and his roommate, Mimi Leonard, plan to get married in December. The most startling news is about Rennie Davis, who helped organize the Chicago Seven's convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj Ji. Davis, it turns out, now sells life insurance for John Hancock in Denver, wearing contact lenses and what looks like a blow-dry hairdo. He is living, he says, a sweet, useful life: Brighten the Corner Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: An Elegy for the New Left | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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