Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women in Love. A Ken Russel extravaganza. The taste of movie lovers generally can be calculated along an axis: those who like Women in Love intersects the line of those who don't. Those who like it usually don't like Godard, Resnais, exponents of the New Sensibility; they prefer Elvira Madigan to The Emigrants, Tolstoy to Proust, Flaubert to Gide. They choose oreos over hydrox, Pepsi over Coke, The Beatles over Traffic, Ritz over Saltines, Lily Pulitzer over Design Research, Cliffie peaches over Cliffie limes, and so on and so forth. Allston Cinema...
...prefer to spend billions of dollars on a rock-collecting excursion to the moon rather than feeding and clothing people on earth...
Most of the Watergate witnesses prefer not to answer with a simple yes or no. The vagueness shown last week by H.R. Haldeman has been the motto of the month: "I am not sure whether I was or not. I may very well have been." Other witnesses felt that truth was illusory; facts could only be construed "in their context." The quibbling over nuances would do credit to Henry James-as when Ehrlichman vainly tried to distinguish between "literal" and "actual...
Much as the Dutch like the clatter of wooden shoes on cobblestone streets, they have always detested the clicking of military heels. It reminds them of the years of Wehrmacht occupation. They would prefer the army to walk softly, the way resistance fighters did during World...
...Surprises. In 1959, two years after Behn's death, the leadership of ITT passed to Harold S. Geneen, a small, owlish man who was trained in accountancy, and seems to prefer hamburgers to French cuisine. Even so, Geneen cannot resist comparing himself to Behn: "He was a man of his time; I am a man of my time." Born in Britain 63 years ago, Geneen came to the U.S. at the age of one. A wizard with figures, Geneen began his career as a New York Stock Exchange page and rose from accountant to executive positions in such companies...