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Word: pr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Biggs's eyes widened in mock astonishment at the end of the story. He paused, and then, in good-humored outrage, questioned the captive listeners in his rolled-R thick English accent: "What is this pr-r-r-r-rune doing in Carnegie Hall...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Warmth, Wit and Wisdom | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

Backing down, Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek lamely announced that Prague was of course observing the Helsinki agreement and would continue to do so. Radio, television and the press abruptly ended their denunciations of the chartists. Explaining the turnabout, the party newspaper Rudé Právo declared that the nation had been temporarily "distracted" by a mere handful of "reactionaries" but that the time had come again to go on to "further successes in the building of socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISSIDENTS: Dual Messages to Washington | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Susan Lyman labels the differences between the Bunting and Horner years as one of style. "Matina is not a person who has bought the national PR approach. We want to do a good job and we aren't anxious to blow our horn," she says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horner's Radcliffe: A state of flux | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Pilote: Tour de Québec, JVH prét à décoller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Air Talk: Attendez, S'il Vous Pla | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

This is hardly the ore of glistening literary biography and, save for a précis of Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incorrodable Shamus | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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