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Word: rolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the heart. Teresa, dressed appropriately in a black gown-though no one was dead when she put it on-walks unsympathetically past his body and away from the camera. She stops motionless in the middle distance, an elegant figure on a path framed by trees, as the credits roll by. It is a beautiful last shot, with a stillness that suggests an old postcard. Its accurate message is that the figures, their world and everything once considered important are withered and gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Diff | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...that the Ramones will soothe you. But this album shows that the Ramones are really learning how to play their instruments. It boasts good hard rock and roll with no compromise with the middle of the road. The album only falls short when the band leaves the basic punk pattern and tries either lyrically or musically to make some real statement...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: No Sleeping Pill | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...that is to say, the sense of man- consists. The impersonal industry of the U.S.A., having appropriated the situational wisdoms of East and West, took the fetters of the Middle Ages and made of them unchastity belts [and] set in motion antiseptic assembly lines off of which began to roll sadomobiles, succubuses, sodomy sofas for the home, and public gomorrarcades, and at the same time it established research institutes and science foundations to take up the fight to liberate sex from the servitude of the perpetuation of the species. Sex ceased to be a fashion, for it had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Appalled by these prospects, and still more by voter fury, Congressmen are searching for ways to roll back the tax boosts. The increases are unavoidable if payouts continue to rise at their present superheated rate-from $39 billion as recently as 1970 to an expected $135 billion this year and almost $250 billion in 1985. Falling birth rates shortly will reduce the supply of new workers available to pay taxes, and people are living longer, thus collecting benefits for many more years than the architects of the Social Security Act of 1935 ever anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trying to Slow Social Security | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Letting judges roll around like untethered cannons seems indefensible at a time when the public clamor is all for accountability in government. Yet, before judges are judged too harshly, it is necessary to understand how they fit into the political process and became so powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Have the Judges Done Too Much? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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