Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, no. A night's sleep, a warm bright morning and a big grits breakfast begin to focus facts. The breakfast (paper plate, plastic knife and fork) is at the Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want...
...further evidence, the Maryland state police reported that Virginia Dentist Albert F. Brendes had examined an upper plate of teeth from the corpse and said that the denture was the one that he had made for Paisley several years ago. Brendes was relying on memory: Paisley's dental records were destroyed, the dentist explained, when he recently reorganized his office...
...film peasants at work, invaded a long-closed public park to get shots of young people courting, and barged into a beauty parlor to record post-Mao women getting their hair done; an ABC crew solemnly documented the progress of a plump Peking duck from barnyard to dinner plate. For the newsmen, reported TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who joined the tour, the trip was "like sitting down to a huge Chinese banquet. News was everywhere...
...license plate gives a little away: NUM 1. This is not wish fulfillment on a rear bumper, though. The owner of this Mercedes rates. In a time of phenomenal success for the record business (698.2 million albums, singles and tapes were sold for $3.5 billion in 1977), Al Coury, president, head honcho and chief dervish of Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making...
After Atget died in 1927, Abbott located and purchased his glass-plate negatives and prints while supported financially by art dealer and collector Julien Leby...