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Word: populars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films will certainly date quickly, like the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road to... series with which they have much in common. But Woody, though sprightly, dislikes himself for his relentless spry evasiveness (and it's been less and less prominent in his recent films); the innocence that met a popular demand in the post-war years won't do in the sophisticate seventies...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...side; he knows that it's good to be able to laugh at yourself, but it's better not to find yourself needing to spend all your time in this pastime. Hence the nimbus of gloom on all his films. Certainly few people would recognize what makes Allen so popular in the tone Yacowar wields...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...America always chooses a military dictatorship over a popular democracy" to promote U.S. financial interests, George Wald, Nobel laureate and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, told a crowd of about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Crisis Involves Alumnus, Students, Professors | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan. Carrion of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has a somewhat inconvenient result: a permanent erection. But a jock strap or tight shorts make it undetectable under street clothes. Some doctors now insert bendable rods that can be turned downward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Potency does not come cheap. Rod implant surgery runs around $3,500, including hospitalization; for the inflatable prosthesis the cost can go as high as $9,000. Despite the expense, which some medical insurance does not cover, the operations are becoming increasingly popular, and doctors performing them say that implanted men are among the happiest patients they have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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