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Word: portending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already changing his image. In London, he threw a Lucullan feast on his 30th birthday for some 200 friends, including Debbie Reynolds, Britt Eklund and Peter Townshend of The Who, and sported a new and different look: short back and sides hairdo and a zoot suit. Does this portend a new career? Journalist Tony Scaduto's recent biography, Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer, implies this could be so. Mick is quoted as saying, "I'm thinking about entering politics, but I haven't got the right wife." Indeed, BiancA, partying in a Zandra Rhodes gown, looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students, tourists and diplomats. Underscoring the supposed menace, Soviet Secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Vigilance Is the Price of D | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...violent fits of temper occasioned by Rosalie's desertion--but the tone of the movie informs us that these are nothing but outbursts of sound and fury, moving toward no tragic destination, only emphasizing Cesar's buffoonish character. Since such incidents neither shift the equilibrium of forces nor portend such a shift, they soon appear unnecessary, and melodramatic in comparison with the whole. The film is so slick that every attempt at seriousness slides right...

Author: By Kevin J. Obrien, | Title: Easy Come, Easy Go | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

...Give You None," were nothing more than the transposition of his tormented personal life into his music. He began to solve those problems with Moondance, and finally dismissed them altogether for the connubial bliss of Tupelo Honey. In light of all that, Saint Dominic's Preview doesn't portend well...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Searching for the Lion | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...Nixon Administration has remained wary of Allende. But last week it became known that Washington is planning a shift that could portend a more relaxed attitude toward the Allende regime. U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry, who Allende felt had opposed him in last year's campaign, will soon be replaced by Nathaniel Davis, 46, a cool-headed career man currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. Though delicate, Davis' new assignment hardly compares with his last one. He went to Guatemala after his predecessor, John Gordon Mein, was gunned down by terrorist killers in the streets of Guatemala City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Mandate for Allende | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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